Welcome to the Official SoCal BS/ Shenanigans, Tundras and What’s Happening Thread

Paid family leave. 6 weeks home with the baby girl.

@fisherman951 try to touch different parts of the suspension as the noise is occurring. With how loud the noise Is you might be able to feel the origin. Grab the upper control arm, strut, sway bar, lower arm. Be careful not to pinch your hand between moving parts.

 

Congratulations Francis!!!

 

Oh, Yeay! The gangs all here! Wait. Where's @nishibot?

Sure. Never done it but, if you'll watch YouTube videos, I'll hand you beer. Gotta be on the way up or back from Riverside tho- 'cause I gotta jump up and down on Tony's truck and do a coupla shots with his wife.

I think that's what we said.

My favourite here... aside from the usual fade this famous actor always does, when supporting roles are cast ...

is, isn't that guy wearing a mechanics uniform? You've been working on your editing skills, Mr. @McFly!

How many miles since the lift was installed? Don't most bolted components need a re-check after a couple hundred miles? Seems like a good idea.

This is great, Francis! Congratulations to you, Mrs. @Porschetech29, and Big Brother. How's he doing with the whole sharing attention with a new baby thing?

 

Hi, Homie! We need to hang out before Jen gets... large and unruly

Edit: unwieldy.

 

Yes we do, the first few weekends in Jan are full

@nishibot - where you at buddy? I think he might be out of town

 

Well then, we better get something started for the end of January or early February. Before that litter of puppies is due to arrive! Let's wait til we get out of the holiday, then reconvene the Planning Commitee.

 

I’m thinking when joon and the bastards come down

 

Thanks Sunny. Carter has been a good big brother and has adjusted well. Roxy was home with the baby for 5 months and finally went back to work. Now it’s my turn

 

I knew she was born months ago (before our Ocatillo trip). I'm glad Carter's doing well. And thrilled you're getting some bonding time of your own. It's way cool y'all worked out how to keep her home as many months as possible!

 

Thanks every one. I’ll be checking all bolts to
Make sure they are all tight and hopefully it’s something simple. I’ll be ordering one of those stethoscope to have it ready in case it’s needed. @Porschetech29 if it’s a bushing or something is their anything I can spray to lubricarte or do I need to take off and grease it up?

 

I'm here just been lurking the past couple of days. Tony I would be more than willing to try and help you find the source of that awful noise (would drive me crazy) I might have an early day today (maybe off by 1pm) or can meet up some time this weekend.

 

If I can’t find the noise with that stethoscope I ordered I’ll definitely take your word on giving me a hand. It’s starting to piss me off lol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykWq1Wo4SZg

 

Any update?

 

Had my stethoscope ready and no more noise. Drive it today and heard the noise and then went away. Checked bolts and everything looks tight. I’ll be swapping out wheels soon so I’ll re check everything then. Kinda weird thing going on

 

Come up to Ventura I'll toss them on.

 

That can be a bitch to install ! More so with the Bushings...speaking for myself without any experience of this kind of install, got half way then put it back together with barely any energy left. Taking the truck on a quick road trip and the best choice was to restore back to original state.

Either way it was a great learning experience. @Porschetech29 guided me through and I was back in no time.

@Mwray8909 I may take you up on that offer since you live at the nard

 

An early Happy New Year to all you Shenanigans out there. It was great getting to meet so many of you this year!

 

Great to meet you Sam and the rest of the group. Happy New Year!

Are you in Big Bear?

 

Why would the shackles be so hard to install?

 

We’re in SD. The photo was taken near Idylwild last week.

 

I’m glad you got it back together. You can call me anytime for help. If I lived closer to you I would come out and help you replace the bushings and shackles.

Very nice Sam, you said you wanted to do some snow wheeling, hopefully next time we can join you.

 

In my case, lack of knowledge but learning. Actually, the painful part is the bushings.

 

What did you use to remove the bushing? You can rent this for free from autozone.
http://www.autozone.com/test-scan-a...+tool&fromString=search&isIgnoreVehicle=false

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C61ohPERPOA

 

Thanks Joon!

 

Snowy New Year: plows and road crews out doing what they do, from Julian over to Old Hwy 80.

So... probably snowing in Big Bear too....

 

Pressing out the bushing was a bitch. 150psi to a impact gun on the press and still had issues. Got it done, but expect to take time. First try I bent a fairly large c clamp trying to press them out.

 

@computeruser6 Thanks for leading the Cleghorn run yesterday! Had a great time.