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98 RS3000 factory installed orig owner Gave my 19y/o this beast and he had dead battery during cold spell, and upon hooking up new DieHard horn sounds. Pulled fuse to horn, so now only electric that works is interior dome, headlights, and blinking red door open indicator on dash and security...

Today was spent removing my old rack and lower control arms. The oem lower control arm bolts-are much simpler to navigate than the generic ones from rock. The rack was easier to remove by cutting the high pressure line--I cranked it majorly last year when I replaced it. The o ring with the...

high pressure line I changed my high pressure line because I hit a massive bump on highway in Cleveland and the original line gave way on the rack and it bled out. That took forever to get re-connected. Using steel screw clamp on the low pressure line warped the fitting(which may have been...

Royal Pain Removed mine the past 2 days-that much pita! Crows foot 17mm on rack was destroying the bolt -so I cut the line with sawzall and got 17mm deep on with a u-joint and long extender to 1/2 breaker bar up front near radiator. Don't let u joint twist to the point it allows the socket to...

Lower Ball Joints Adequately warned about non-oem lbjs-I went with Toyota brand and that improved the slop by a ton. I had tested the lbjs with a 2x4 when the front end was in the air-but that didn't indicate the movement. So changing the lbjs was probably a 3 hour job--and I'm kicking myself...

Tack welding that shaft--and I had probably a little less than an inch of play either way from 12 o'clock-and it wasn't making any knocking noises-totally tightened up my front end. I installed the new bushings on the rack-which didn't really make quite the difference the new tie rod ends did...

Rack Bushings Upon driving the freeway a couple of times, I looked at the rack while my son turned the wheel and those bushings; while looking fine, have a bunch of play-so I ordered up a set. Will replace next week. Is the slip joint you mentioned welding the one under the dash? Set screw...

Corroded/seized castle nuts Suspected my ball joints-and when I checked them out there was no movement when prying steering tires 2" off the ground. Then grabbed each tire at the 15 and 45 after positions and there was a little bit of play -so I bought new outer tie rod ends. This vehicle is...

I registered yesterday and was just going to mention it's been my experience that misfiring under normal opr conditions are usually caused by something in the electrical system. I had bought new single prong spark plugs and they would misfire like this. You've got to have split prong OEM plugs...