That color and the back window are really slick. I like the way that looks better than the Toyota tundra power window some guys have done.
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I wonder if one of those scissor type valve spring compressors could be used to compress door detent springs? I think I still have one of those in one of my tool boxes.It's no surprise there are poor quality spring tools out there these days. 20 years ago NAPA carried a good one in their Balkamp brand (#7703818, no idea if it's still a good quality tool today but it's gone up in price by more than $10); I still have mine, used many times and no signs of wear at all. Nice to know that today, Dorman makes something that is actually useful.
Richard
Sure thing! The spring install was waaay harder than I thought it would be. Installing the 2" drop springs on the front suspension was less difficult and only seems slightly more dangerous. (Compressing springs of any significance for R&R is one of my least favorite activities...in case that wasn't obvious.)Thanks for the heads up on that spring tool. I'm going to have to replace the rollers in my door detents in the near future,they pop like double tapping a .22 short.
In my heavily biased opinion, I would say that it's worth a shot since you have one already. I will say, the amount of room you have to work in is deceptively small. The spring is buried in the door jamb. We all know this, but it's not until you actually try to mess with the spring that it becomes really apparent!I wonder if one of those scissor type valve spring compressors could be used to compress door detent springs?
Thank you, kindly. I think the color worked out well, and I also think the black bits (door handles, cowl trim, weather strip, etc) contrast nicely.That color and the back window are really slick. I like the way that looks better than the Toyota tundra power window some guys have done.
Napa has become a bit of a mystery to me. Even 10 years ago I generally accepted that their parts were solid. Sure, they sourced them all over creation and put them in their own packaging, but they seemed to do a pretty good job of vetting the parts they sold under their brand.It's no surprise there are poor quality spring tools out there these days. 20 years ago NAPA carried a good one...
Oh good. I'll look forward to that!LMC is a whole 'nother story and I'm sorry you had to learn the hard way. I do hope that window beltline trim holds up for you but I'll bet you'll discover soon that it will begin rolling up with the window.
Yes, that, and Majestic offset the latch (like others) so you can't just slide a credit card between the sliding pane(s) of glass and unlatch the window.That slider looks good - looks like they solved the problem of it being just big enough to crawl through
Years ago my work truck was a '98 3500HD with a 4 panel slider. For whatever reason you couldn't unlock the doors from the outside but we frequently needed to lock the truck while on property (people you've towed don't take kindly to seeing your truck unattended, plus this is Houston and there are petty thieves/vehicle burglars everywhere) - so we'd lock the truck from inside, and when we came back to it, hope that nobody saw us reaching in through the slider to poke the unlock button with a long reach tool.The original 4-panel slider that was installed (and is still living rent-free in my basement) was hilarious in that regard. It was like someone designed it to be opened from the outside.
I worked at NAPA back in '94 before I joined the Air Force. I could see the writing on the wall back then. O'Reillys and Autozone started opening stores locally and underselling NAPA. We had a handful of old guys who knew the parts business forwards and back and got paid a professional wage. Autozone had computers and minimum wage workers hired right off the street. O'Reillys was somewhere in between - they hired from the Vo-Tech (and still do). If you called your local Autozone store your call got transferred to a prison in Kansas where inmates looked up your parts. There was no way NAPA could compete.Napa has become a bit of a mystery to me. Even 10 years ago I generally accepted that their parts were solid. Sure, they sourced them all over creation and put them in their own packaging, but they seemed to do a pretty good job of vetting the parts they sold under their brand.
Within the past 10 years, in my experience, their products have been hit or miss. Sometimes the price is outlandish; sometimes the price is fine but the quality is suspect; sometimes the price is good and the quality is, too.
Well, that's one form of keyless entry, I supposed....we'd lock the truck from inside, and when we came back to it, hope that nobody saw us reaching in through the slider to poke the unlock button with a long reach tool.
No shock. We're all guilty of it to some extent. Does anyone drive a rental car the same way they drive their own car? Probably not.Everyone that drove it before I got hold of it had beat it to within an inch of its life. I swear it spent more time at the mechanic than being used.
Yeah, it's crazy to think how much the retail landscape has changed in 30 years.I worked at NAPA back in '94 before I joined the Air Force. I could see the writing on the wall back then...
Yes, keeping the stock Opti...for now.Sounds like you're keeping the opti? 95 is at least vented, 1 year only timing cover. You can 24x it with a 411 or do like I plan and run a 96-97 timing cover, 4x reluctor, and matching crank pulley hub. Gotta get the crank key from the general too. I'll run it without a cam sensor and it'll be in batch fire mode. Opti will exist only as a distributor and cease to be problematic. My last AC Delco opti lasted 9 years but they're not making them anymore. I'm running my spare AC Delco opti now and will be caught with my pants down if this one takes a crap. The engines themselves are pretty bulletproof, my rotating assembly went together in 2015 and it was all used stock stuff that lives in a road race car.