1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

damnit, thanks for the disappointment

 

Did you catch the vid?

 

I'm still catching up on this thread. I was still on pg 1920.

 

I meant the covid

 

Ooooh. Yeah, pretty sure I had the rona. I'm still not 100%. It started thrusday 2 weeks ago.

 

$8111 selling price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-GWPqw7bc&t=140s&ab_channel=NortheastAutoImports

 

Did it Slowly go through symptoms one at a time... like fever/loss of appetite/diarrhea/chest/sinus/loss of smell-taste, then you just feel fkn exhausted?
Guy at work just got it for the 3rd time, he is fully VXD but I think he regrets not getting his 8th or 9th booster...................

Hope your feelin better man, its an ass kicker!

 

It hit all at once. Fever, chest, butt pee. No sinus or loss of taste. I got wore out easily after that subsided, and still do. Still have a slight cough. No vax here though.

 

Yeah, me either. That was sarcasm about my co-worker.
Several of them that are vaccinated and boosted have had it several times... and not covid "light" either.

 

EDIT: I’m actually a dumbass “there here” hahahaha
They’re* here! Ceramic coated and curing.

 

Those are slick! Are they real beadlocks?

 

Yessir race line monsters. About to kill my mpg these suckers are heavy haha

 

You running these on the roads? Or dedicated off-road vehicle

 

Yes.

 

How so? Lot of my buddies do it and I’m a stickler for routine maintenance.

 

Very few people run actual beadlocks on the streets. They are not designed for street use. They are designed to “prevent wheels from dismounting when placed under massive amounts of torque load and lower-than-normal tire pressures”. Most also do not have DOT approval and cannot be run on the streets in some scenarios at all. Interpretation of that is varied, and definitely applies to vehicles under DOT scrutiny, but maybe not for common passenger cars depending on who you ask. Many tire shops will not balance true beadlock wheels. You could run balancing beads in them or do your own mount and balance possibly. Not much can go wrong off-road with a beadlock that comes loose or allows some leakage of air around the bead as you are probably looking to be down in the 3-8psi range rock crawling if your on beadlocks. On the street, the beadlock ring is what’s holding the bead, and keeping the air in at much higher pressures. Check those bolts often and keep a close eye on the tire psi as a loss of bead will lead to a loss of pressure and potential blowout. Sounds like fun having to check all 120 or so beadlock bolts everytime you go for a drive. Not. They do look dope though.

 

To be completely honest I was preparing for a gnarly DOT lecture haha. Well handled. I definitely understand the consequences of running it on the street and how tedious ownership could be, but I’m prepared. Luckily I’ve got a few connections that can get me setup and if I didn’t these would have been out of question. Thanks brotha!

 

Y’all should have ripped me a new one for this grammatical error

 

Don’t worry, I made some of my own.

 

I don’t know if something is wrong with my zerks or my gun. I tried to put grease in and it just shoots out of the nozzle around the zerk. I used a pin to open the ball of the fitting and I’ve put pressure against the fitting with the gun but I cannot get the grease to go inside the fitting.

 

6 lugs need a multiple of 6 spokes & a multiple of 6 bolts. Too many spokes, not enough bolts.

but i've talked to a few people who run beadlocks full time, everyone has said they've been trouble free.

 

Sometimes loosening the zerk will allow grease in. Or removing the Zerk altogether, cleaning and reinstalling.

 

What if they’re brand new? I can take the zerk off, I can pump grease through it on the bench and then put it back in, nothing. There is nothing inhibiting the grease behind the zerk opening

 

Can you push the ball in with something?

 

Yes

 

I don’t see a forest. So did the trees get scared and leave?

 

This ^^^

Ultimately this will tell you if the fitting is working or if it's a prob with your gun/tip/whatever. Does it do it on all zerks or just one? Try another zerk, if the zerk works, swap the zerk over and grease, then clean/replace the other.?

 

Take the Zerk fitting off and make sure the NEW part's hole is even drilled right/open into the part.
EDIT: Unless the NEW part you were referring to was the actual Zerk.