I feel your guys pain. I've been doing my entire front end for about a week now. I keep finding bad parts and tools that I need to finish the job properly. It hasn't been cold and the rain held off, but my 3 year old son sneezed on me and got me sick for the whole process. Somebody's pit bull got out and scared the crap out of me. I was wrenching away and just felt something staring at me. When I looked up I was looking into the eyes of a pit. It turned out to be a nice one though. I had lots of people stop and look at the car while I was working on it asking all kinds of questions about it. Then a "mechanic" walked by and told me I made a mistake buying this car because they are the hardest cars in the world to work on. I told this is the first car I ever worked on so I have no comparison, but I didn't think it was that bad. He got upset and walked away. I need a garage so people will leave me alone. I couldn't use the c-clamp press I rented. I took my steering knuckles and new ball joints to sears and they pressed them in for 37.50.

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1985 300d smoke silver/red int. (204k) <--Sadie the 80's Mercedes from Hades!
1985 300TD 587 cabernet red/155 Creme (143k)
2007 Ford Expedition EL (54k)

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