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Feb 20, 2016 | 08:41 AM

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fordboy2

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From: freeland, mi

Nice work so far. Glad to see your learning to do it yourself.

Feb 20, 2016 | 09:34 AM

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Turtle6688

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From: West Milford, New Jersey

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Originally Posted by Irish19614x4

Where you located Turtle? Truck sure shows signs of a snow/salt belt area. Hope that's on your list of items to clean up. All that fancy nice stuff looks nice but won't make a difference if that cancer rust is taking over.

Keep up the good work and you mentioned not being legally able to drive I'm curious how old are you considering all the work your doing at a age of not being able to legally drive?

Yeah I'm in New Jersey, good amount of salt thrown over here. When I did all of the work, I'm pretty sure I was 16. It was right before the end of July. I am legally driving now.

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Originally Posted by Bently_Coop

The Motorcraft Sway bar links aren't to expensive from Rock-Auto either. Updates looking good though. How do you like the braking performance?

I went with the links from Energy. Brake performance is great. My dads Ram has powerstop pads and rotors, just changed out the front pads on that maybe a month ago and no warping, or rusting. Good stuff, I would recommend.

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Originally Posted by 05MilMachine

I can sympathize with your story. I had 4 cars by the time I was old enough to drive them. I kept buying clunkers and working on them. Some of the best learned lessons are from the mistakes you make while wrenching. Just glad you didn't keep driving with no oil in your engine.

Oh, I've learned alot from mistakes...
And lets just say, I made it home the day I found the crack.