Oh wow, I just realized that I didn't post about my near miss! So shortly after my last post here, I was using 6080 as my daily driver. One morning as I was driving home from work, I hit a pothole in the road and heard this HORRIBLE grinding noise! I figured I had blown a tire and was running on the wheel. So I pulled over, and noticed something odd. The wheel was sticking out at an absolutely sickening angle. Upon closer inspection, the castle nut had come off of my ball joint and I had been dragging my brand new stainless lower control arm along the interstate at 75mph! Well, I got towed home, and sometime in the following weeks replaced the castle nut. I drove it to work again, but the alignment was way off, and it made me nervous to drive it. I figured I would get an alignment when I got paid and that should fix everything back to normal. Well, while waiting to get paid my license expired, and then shortly after that I got laid off, so I wasn't able to get it aligned. A couple of weeks later my parent's really needed a battery, and since I had just installed a new one they "borrowed" it from my car "since you can't drive it right now anyway". They promised to replace it once they got paid, but then hit hard times, as did I, and my poor car is still sitting in the same place it was parked two years ago without a battery.
*phew* Anyway, glad everyone is caught up. Sooooo...today I finally got around to doing something with 6080 again! I finally installed my black side stripe kit I got from Video Bob almost three years ago!!! It wasn't too hard to install, and only took a couple of hours counting my lunch break in the middle! It looks awesome!!!!
Before
After! Much improved! :D
So next up on the list is locating the leak in the clutch and repairing it, painting the wheels the dark grey color, and FINALLY replacing the A/C system! Looking forward to getting back into these projects!!
~Lyndsey
