JMortensen

wheelman, YEP! That's it! I like my explanation better though. It tends to get under people's skin more, and there really isn't a good argument against it, unless religion comes into the conversation. Since environmentalists are almost always left leaning socialist non-religious types it helps to flush out the emotion in their argument.

HeavyZ, if your argument was that we shouldn't hunt lions because they are endangered, then I think you have a point. I still haven't seen that they are even considered threatened, and I would leave those threatened and endangered distinctions up to the experts, you know, the ones whose research is funded by safaris... I was reading that lions are magnificent creatures and that anyone who hunts them should do so with their bare hands. Totally different argument. There is a time and a place to hunt endangered species too. When they get diseased and could transfer that disease to the rest of the population. Might as well let someone come in and pay big to kill the animal and use that money to further their cause. That's what they do with elephants a lot of the time.

You're right Pop. Sorry everyone, I get a little carried away sometimes. That says it better than I ever could.

Yes. If you shorten the rear tubes 2", that will lower the car 2" in the rear. If you don't do the same in the front, than the front will sit 2" higher than the rear. So to even it out you'll need to lower the front 2", which will put you close to the bumpstops. The point is not how long the tubes are, the point is where in the travel the vehicle sits level. Originally it sat level or close with the rear tubes longer than the front tubes, so that's what you need.

Can you prove me wrong? If not, then I'd like to take this time to give your argument back to you. Your argument is dumb.

This isn't going to go over well with you or most people, but I feel that my Winchester rifle is a product of nature. Since I am not a creationist, I feel that man evolved into a tool builder. He used his brain and his tools to make the Winchester which is also a tool, therefore it is NATURAL. Your Z is a product of nature. Nuclear power plants are natural. Maybe a religious person could get out of that conundrum, but since I feel that human existence is a product of nature, then everything humans do is natural. If you can explain to me how I'm wrong, I'd love to hear it. TO EAT IT, BECAUSE YOU CAN, SOME PEOPLE ENJOY IT, ETC

None of the sources I checked online had up to the minute stats on lion populations, but NONE of them listed the lion as an endangered species. You're right I don't read African newspapers. Do you? Was the endangered part really the argument? Didn't seem like it to me... Survival instinct.

If I were out in the bush in Africa alone, they WOULD outnumber me and track me down and kill me. And there would be no guilty lions saying "maybe you shouldn't kill that guy, he's not really a good source of food, and he's so majestic it would be a crime".

OK, if the slave has to be 7/8" extended to hit the fork at all, I'd say you need a longer pin.

HeavyZ, I think you're absolutely right in all of your previous arguments. The problem I have with this argument is that it really boils down to animal rights. You say "kill for fun", but it can be more closely defined as "when is it appropriate to kill an animal and when is it not". This is a slippery slope argument, and there is no other rationale for "this killing is appropriate, but that one is not" other than a purely emotional one that I've seen. BTW--The African Lion is currently not listed as endangered or threatened: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/african_lion.html

When you tested this out of the car the slave moved 1". It should also move 1" on the car. If it only moves 1/8" on the car, then the most likely culprit is air in the lines which doesn't compress when its on the bench but does when it has to push on the pp. Sounds like it still needs a good bleed to me. A longer rod won't make the piston in the slave travel any further. Could also be a leaky master or slave, but that should be pretty apparent especially out of the car...

Thanks Aaron!!! You rock!

Seems to me kinda hard to be a "macho" hunter these days. So much easier to take the high road and say the PC thing. Then you come off looking like a "sensitive ponytail man" and that's what is non-offensive in today's society. Would you attack a lion or a bear or even a deer with your bare hands? The average lion weighs 350-550 lbs, and is equipped with 19 (I think) razor sharp claws and huge teeth and powerful jaws and can run (I'm guessing) 30-35 mph. So where is the fair fight in sending a human, or a group of humans out to do battle with their practically non existant claws and weak jaws and thin skin? That doesn't seem like a "fair" fight at all. How many men have been killed by lions? 100s, 1000s? How many lions have been killed by totally unarmed men? 0? 1? We evolved this way so that we can use tools. What were the first tools? Weapons. Not too much anthropological evidence supporting the stone age hairbrush, but they're out there finding knives and spear tips all the time. I agree with you that the meat eaters thing is a whole other argument, but it didn't seem to stop people from saying it, so I and some others defended that part of the argument. FORCED BIRTH CONTROL??? REALLY? Who would force it on them? The UN? The US? I'd rather just not provide aid then force birth control on some of these African countries... This points out my other pet peeve when it comes to hunting or being out in nature in general. People tend to romanticize Indians or tribesmen or aboriginees as "at one with nature". What a load of CRAP. They're people, and they'll use any advantage they can get. Just like people do. I haven't killed an animal in 10 years or more. I don't hunt, and probably won't until I have kids and I want to show them where food comes from, just like my dad did for me. When I looked at this video though, I was immediately thinking "I know where this is going to go and I don't like it". I knew that people would say roughly the things that have come out here. I wouldn't go on that hunt if someone else paid the $100K or whatever for me, but I also am not going to try and stop the guy from doing so, or pass judgement on him. There is, at least to me, a very big correlation between the hunter and EVERY ONE OF US. Every time one of us opens the throttle of our Z car and turns a lap on the track, or makes a pass at the drag strip, or even drives to the "warehouse of death" (grocery store) in our Zs, there is some idiot crying about how our cars are "overkill" and "don't need to be on the road" and "macho machines" that we put together to "prove our manliness". Even though I wouldn't be part of that hunt I'm going to defend that guy to the end because I think he should be able to do it. I don't agree with it, I wouldn't do it myself, but there's no rational reason that I can see to argue against it, although you have made it clear that there are lots of emotional ones. Jon

If you did that and set the ride height level, you would be 2" further thru the strut travel in the front. It would be a much better idea to section both, or not at all.

You've got several million years of precedent and I think instinct you're up against with this one... may not have been 100 yards or a scope, but you can bet there were 5 hairy little dudes out there in a hunting party several million years ago, now we have 5 taller less hairy dudes doing the same thing. Please explain why is it OK to go to the supermarket and get your dead animals but not to kill it yourself? What difference does it make if the food was killed for you or if you killed it yourself? How are you putting a different value on the life of food that was raised for slaughter? Or is it completely arbitrary, eg lions don't deserve to die because they're "majestic" but cows can go because they were bred to be killed? Jon

Wait a minute. If you haven't sectioned the struts yet, then why don't you just grind off the original bead that the spring perches sat on? Then you can section and put the new perch in the right place.

I think the 5" below the top of the strut is the guideline for 10" springs. Regardless, if you put the perches in the right spot you shouldn't have to compress the springs with any length. If you have 12" springs and you can set the adjuster all the way at the bottom and still can't get it on, I'd go with 8" springs, because if you went with 10" you'd still need to be most of the way down just to get everything together, and then you wouldn't be able to make much adjustment.

Hey, look at that! We agree on something!

Thanks Pop. I was hoping I wasn't the only one... I love the "magnificent animal" BS. Like the cockroach you stepped on a week ago or that head of lettuce you bought at the grocery store wants to live any less than the lion. If anyone eats meat and hasn't killed, gutted, skinned, cooked and eaten their own food at least once I think that you owe it to the animals you're eating to do so. It really is a blood and guts world out there folks.

I know this backlash thing is an old post from Feb of last year, but here's what I just found. Just measured my new used diff and it was .007 backlash. I know the diffs that run backwards in the front of a 4x4 are set looser on the backlash. .007 is more "usual" for a backlash setting. Jon

Can't both the Konis and the AD struts be disassembled and revalved? Might be a solution for Cary's problem anyway...

IME, and it is very limited with the KA, the lifters in the KA can't handle autox. They bleed down and the engine rattles really really bad for several minutes after a run with a not very prepared vehicle. I'm not sure how much permanent damage that causes (if any), but it seems to happen with KAs and VGs. There might be a fix for that too (I know very little about them), but I thought I should share. If you are really planning on autoxing you might want to consider what class this will put you in. You'll probably go into some really fast mod class with a weaker 4 cyl. A friend of mine just build an L20B with 6" rods, big overbore, and I think the crank was Z22, but I'm not positive on that one. Head was the peanut chamber head from SSS 510 with 1.5" runners. Pretty sweet, but I'd rather have the extra torque and hp from the 6.

That's cool man, glad it worked out. Having pulled those caps off with the block upside down with no pistons, rods, clutch, and flywheel, they were a bitch. I can see now that you've explained it how the weight of the rotating parts would help. Good job!

We need a "biting my tongue" emoticon...

I don't think they have email. I tried the other day and ended up just calling them instead. Here's their website: http://www.ground-control.com/ Heard nothing but good things from the few people I know or talk to on the net who have used them.