12/7/12

I think we have all the parts, except for the brackets we’ll have to make, for the brakes on the Falcon axle for Lil' Wiggly.  The rotors and parking brake calipers arrived Tuesday and the long wheel studs arrived Wednesday.  So, Saturday we may be installing the axle and making the car roll again.  I say “may” because we still have to make the aforementioned brackets and I think they would be easier to fab on the table than on the car.  Now, just because that may be the case, we may still install the axle and build the brackets on the car.  We’ll see.  Now that I think about it, since the fronts don’t have rotors at the moment, we might install the axle so the car it sitting with no brakes whatsoever… just for a larff.  Then again, we’ll probably slap rotors on front and rear since we’ll have the long studs in place.  Yeah, the thing will probably sit with rotors but no calipers.  I imagine the work will go this way; one of us will remove the front hubs while the other finishes drilling the holes in the spring perches on the rear axle.  NOT IT!  Ha!  We will install the long studs in the 300ZX hubs and the Falcon axles.  If necessary, I'll zook the studs into the axles, but I think the splines will align since the packaging specifically says “Ford rear and Chrysler front…” yada yada.  I may try one more time to break free that recalcitrant steering link so we can adjust the toe… I'm just not sure how I'd go about it.  I may unbolt the lower ball joint from the control arm and strut so we can use the whole steering knuckle for leverage.  Yeah, that sounds like a workable plan.  We’ll do that.  Worst case, we’ll thread the link out of the inner ball joint, take the outer joint, link, and steering knuckle to the vice, chuck the some-bitch up there and give her a twist.  Of course I'll want to zook on an adjusting nut to the rod at that point necessitating the removal of the other side’s link.  Hmm, hopefully it’ll break free on the car.  We’ll get it to do something somehow.  So, caliper brackets.  I'm not sure what we’re going to do there.  We’ll need some pretty substantial steel for those.  Oh, and the parking brake calipers are going to require sliders since they are single “piston” designs.  I had an idea which might work.  I can't seem to describe it so I'll probably make a drawring in Paint to show it to John and get his thoughts.  Perhaps he’ll attach it so y'all can see it.   I'm off to go play in Paint right quick.  Ok, that was a dismal failure.  Tiny and Flaccid, in their infinite dumbassitude, decided that a working program like Paint needed to be totally redesigned so it is impossible to use.  I fucking hate computer programmers… especially those at Tiny and Flaccid.  If someone would brutally murder EVERY Microsoft employee, I'd… well, you name it.  I'll give up whatever anyone wishes if every last employee of Microsoft were hacked to tiny pieces in the most horrific manner.  I'll hand Nancy Pelosi all of my guns.  I'll give Al Gore all of my gas-guzzling cars.  I'll go on TV and say, “Yes-suh, he be da bes’ president we’s evuh had.  Jackson/Sharpton 2016!”  It would be so totally worth it if the world were cleansed of ALL Microsoft employees.  Psh, kill everyone at Apple as well and I'll get Obama’s face tattooed across my entire back, one of his “Hope” symbols on my chest and stomach, and dance nekkid in downtown Chicago on his birthday!  THAT is how much I hate computer programmers.  Well, I've now gone so far off the original train of thought that I think I'm just going to call it a rant for the week.  I'll talk to y'all again Monday.