Evening Charlie. I know the feeling, one went for alignment Monday and the want a grand to fix it and had another brake line break today on my daughters Explorer.

 

My boss and couple others in the office were sick all week. Hopefully, it stays away from me.

As for inspection - we shall see.

 

When it rains it pours. Which one's all messed up on alignment?

 

J's truck. We put new tires on it before we took it in. So now I need to put a tie rod, sway bar bushings, & ball joints. So we are basically just going to rebuild the front end while we are under there.

 

I cant afford to get sick plus i hate that feeling.........take care Scott

 

That stinks...but might as well get it done while you're in there, saves issues later.

 

That sounds like a lot of beating & hammering on the front end there......

 

Thanks Gerry, I don't want it either.

Its definitely a lot of work now but since it still has to be aligned, might as well do it right. Besides the price of alignment has jumped from the last time I had to have one done.

 

I paid almost 200 bucks for an alignment up here last summer.........ouch, now I'm limping

 

I know all about beating, hammering, and heating, and all that stuff....lol. Of course when I did the hub assembly this summer it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

 

Think my last alignment was $90 and that was at the dealership.

 

Ya but thats a 150 Bill & I was at the dealer too..............Scott do you have a ball joint C clamp press......

 

You don't want me to run a c-clamp ball joint press. I press 'em the wrong way

Gerry - they only differentiate between cars and trucks at my dealership, not between truck class until you get to the really big stuff (450's and 550's)

 

I'm either going to buy one since I'll need it down the road again or go rent from the parts store. I'll get a full refund from those guys then...

 

Scott I have a set of c press where do you live