Found a problem which has been dodging me for a couple of weeks. My car had a twitch which I could not figure out. It would seem the rear end was loose and the car would seemingly move sideways a bit. I had changed the rear shocks and the idler arm which seemed to improve the handling but it still had a twitch at highway speeds. So I put it up on a lift today to check out the rear which is nice and tight and could not find anything up front so I decided to take the front end apart and cut another 1/4 coil off the springs. I inspected all the parts and everything looked fine until I was putting the spring back on the driver's side and I noticed the ball joint itself was moving I have tall lower ball joints which are shimmed and spot welded in place. The welding had broke on the driver's which went unnoticed when the car is up in the air but when on the ground the ball joint would move causing the twitch. It's nice an tight now and it handles like it should on the highway.
then I dropped the gas tank cause it was leaking and found that a 4 year old gas tank on a car that is not driven in the winter can still rust out, thank you china...I was able to repair it for now so I installed it and will pick up a new tank Monday....then I replaced my tubular uppers, I modified them to 7" but that was too short so I finally got around to putting in the 8" uppers, which turned out to be too long so I took them out and cut 1/2" out of them, welded them back together and reinstalled them..glad this day is over and the beer is tasting real good
