Wild West Tech Day

[FalconGTHO]

1/9/10

Newly minted Club VP Roxys ongoing engine tear down and soon to be rebuild.





Austin changing out header gaskets.







Jemal needed a pulley noise diagnosed.



Unknown, new? member considered putting in (heavy) Steeda? subframe connectors. Things didnt fit right and I mentioned to him that even Griggs Racing doesnt bother to include connectors in their 14K suspension kit because they feel its not needed. The chassis is stiff enough as is.



Greg wanted to change the third link bushing to poly. DONT bother to try this. The result is NOT justified by the effort required OR the hassle.



Shop owner Joe starting work on something I suspect he wished he had passed on.





Pictures of the Fays 2 Watts link. The anti roll bar rubs against the cross link when the suspension is in long rebound, however.





"Well, were committed now", says Joe.





Extracted, FINALLY.



Clean bore.



Shop employee Rocky working on the bushing shell.





Member Rich and car owner Greg working the "special" scratch built tool they fashoned to press the bushing shell back into the housing mount.





Rich cutting a piece of tubing to improve the tools function.



The after math of the extraction effort.



Lunch. Roxy, Joe, Rich, Rocky, Paul, seated or standing at the table.





Customer cars.

[FalconGTHO]

Joes cars.









Joes office door.

[4Jenna]

What shop is that and where is it?

Looks like a good get together!!!

[1966PonyGirl]

This is our board member, Joe's shop, Reitz Restorations. His shop is in the southwest part of the valley. Joe is pretty knowledgeable and the backbone of our club tech days! I know my '66 has need more then guidence!!!!! (BIG thank you Joe and Travis!!!)

I can PM more details if anyone is interested!

[4Jenna]

I think that's awesome, I didn't even know you guys did things like that. I would love to be apart of something like that. Did you guys post about it on here before hand?

-Chris

[1966PonyGirl]

Actually, I have been pretty bad about our club posts on here. Email is typically how we have been notifying everyone.

Normally after the our board and general meeting, I email everyone our calendar. Printed calendars are available day of the general meeting. You should stop by our general meeting!

Our next one is Tue. Feb 2nd 6:30 at Crazy Earls 9440 W. Peoria Peoria, AZ 85345.

[4Jenna]

Thanks, I'm gonna try and make it!

-Chris

[trucker]

damn near every other weekend is tech day at my house LoL

[05mustangman]

seriously! lol.


Definitely chris you should try to make it out. its actually alot of fun and you would meet a bunch of the coolest people.