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I got one from a joint in Monroe Wa. hey ar still avialable or should be. don't try to save an old one they are old.

Nope you lose, it is one of the first done with the lift kit.

I can fell it through the steering wheel. 2" lift Zap's old '85 the blue one we checked the ball joints and elated parts can find nothing loose, but when hitting bumps in the road it feels like the whole thing is falling apart. ?

I one replaced the boots and re-greased the joints 1500 miles later they were shot again, once a boot rips, junk get in the joint and it loses material, my opinion is replace the axle, it is the same amount of labor.

The other guy from Montana is giving you sound advise.

Movement in and out, free play, it handles nice and solid, no slop you might call it tail wag in some instance on the road and wind, '85 Brat.

Finally changed it, feels pretty solid on the road now.

The power is down on 85 brat I thought it was the fuel I used, but I can hear static on a radio station that is weak. Does anyone know If you can hear this when the ignition wires break down? It wasn't there before.

I drove about 100 last Saturday and I had to get some gas. Usually I don't buy Sinclair, but it was the closest, then my power on the 50 mls back was down. Asked a Friend and he said it happened one time on his bike so he doesn't buy the stuff no more

Ok, listen up you are not going to believe this, I've had choppy steering for a while and when turning sharp right backing into park. I lifted the front off the ground a while back and all kinda noise moving the wheels back and forth, I posted a thread on that awhile back. I have a '85 3" lifted Brat. Well it turns out the washer bottle bolt coming through the fender well was interfering with the top spring pad of the strut, so if you have a lifted outfit you best check it. What a difference it makes in ride and handling. I think I wasted a little clutch over the thing too. I ground it down for clearance but ya might be able to washer it from the engine compartment, out.

The mount itself Or those bushings?

1985 brat, and what do you mean?

Anybody got any Idea and detail about the strut bearing? just had a guy take mine apart and he says there was just two bushings in there cleaned 'em and it is worse than before. is the a bearing in the mount itself? cause I have a breakdown in Chilton and see no bearing either.

I think you're Nuts I didn't pay no 50 bucks for a cable.

I kinda remmember something like that when I first bought my "85 Brat I just bought a new cable. Wa-La

Does that lift put extra stress on those bearings? Ok I got it now there is a bearing on the top of the strut, they are not very old.

Ross that make no sense to me. the strut tower in engine compartment have a plate there, part of the lift, I think. But you're saying there is a bearing up there? I don't remember anything up there but mount when I replaced the springs in my wagon.

It's a clagging and banging and all, it is Zaps old one from about 2 years ago, so i'm pretty sure the lift is in corectly or that hump would be gone by now.

The other day had my Brat in the air and twisting the steering back and forth the front end was real noisey, the srtruts were rotating at the top, and that is were the noise seemed to be coming from. so what's up with that? 1985 3" lift.

'89 gl wagon water pump bearing completly wasted, so much so it knocked a blade off the fan. Anybody have this happen before? found the cause? just old?

Should not be a problem finding one, but one that's not rusted through might be.

Ya it's tough, when you try to get someting nice done. I restored a 1970 Falcon and I had "the" shop with "the" rep do it. Within a year these spots stared showing up, and the bondo popped on the fender well then I fought with em for another 3 yrs. and all they would say is "we don't warrantee rust" go talk to the painter, then he finally fixed em and told me they were finger prints and bitched at me cause he didn't make any money that week, it was his kid that preped it and got his greasy fingers all over my car and didn't wipe it down, and he missed some on the hood and they are obvoius hand print but he said when He fixed em that was it so F me. Ya they are a fine bunch, and thoses are friends of mine, or were. So might as well go to Maco, or do it yourself.

I don't even think Fox & crew would do something like that even if they were real Po'd at you. But they might drive through your front yard or tow a car through it.LOL! But it sounds like these guys filled your truck with junk. Now I took my Lincoln MkVII to ISU collision center tech school at Idaho State University for a paint job. They did a bang up job and pulled out all the divits, and the finish wasn't bad. then I went through the car wash and it blew the rear window trim clean off. Went to the glass guy and got that straightened out, took off to see my Grandkids and as soon as I entered the freeway my top wind shield trim flew off! I turned around and it was toast, lucky I found 1 at the local yard, took it back to the instructor and told him what was up and I needed him to paint it, He did, then i told him how When I picked up the car(he was out of town) I had to bring it home and take all the door trim of and reset it and the mirrors. Now it started bubbling and they looked at it and said they wanted to do the trunk to investigate. Oh he asked me if I spilled something on it. Then I had to take my door panels off to repace the pass. side mirror and they were all tore up, so I glued em back as best I could and bought some new tree pins which were like 6 bucks per 40, and now neighter rattle. So to hell with takin it back to them cause I can't afford for them to work on it, being crippled up like I am. So here is the deal, these are young men and you would think they would know how to do some basic mechanical stuff, but they don't, and the instuctor does not have enough time to watch them all the time, and they don't have enough integrity to do it right or wait for direction. So they teach them all that they need to go into a paint shop, cause every painter I ever dealt with acted the same as that. :-\

The ignition lock tumbler is like any other, there are two that it calls for, either the long one or the short one, mine was the short one. Once the tumbler is changed the accual ingnition switch(ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE COlUM) may have to be adjusted to ingage. I'm telling ya, ya took it the wrong guy.

Wrong Locksmith, he don't know what he's doing.