Colorado B.S. Thread

The Milky Way can be done without a pile of gear if you have a fast-ish wide lens and a sturdy tripod. I caught this one at the Great Sand Dunes a few years ago.



And for deep sky stuff, or exposure stacking, you will want to get a sky tracker.

 

Sky tracking... wow.

Yeah, you dont need much for the regular milky way, just camera, decent lens and tripod. I think most of mine were taken without even using my remote. I do have a wide lens at the top of the things to get for the camera. I should be able to do star pics from the new pad, so I'll have a bit of practice time!

 

Go get'em tiger with that toothpick cutter.

Poor Beetle I want to own one at some point.

 

A bit of a hack job lol!!! but back wall done

 

Why not....



Thanks for the tips Phil. I did realized i had them on upside down and flipped them.

 

I really need to get mine started. Boxes have been sitting a few months already.

 

That was my thought with mine
Now I need to do the doors

 

You doing the whole cab? I think I'm gonna do everything but the floor.

 

Yes but I'm waiting for help with the headliner and floor
I figured I could handle the doors because I know how they come apart,but I got motivated and decided to do the back this morning.

 

@Gramps do you have some left over still?

 

That looks soooooooooooo gooooooood!!!!!!

 

So I tried the whole bottle jack and torch method to get the bushings out of the LCAs....


Worked swell on the fronts but no joy with either rear.
They got burned out and now I guess I'll have to take a Sawzall to the outermost metal sleeve.

 

I've only done this with leaf springs and radius arms, but it may work for control arms too. I use a hacksaw to cut almost all the way thru, then use a hammer and punch to roll the metal sleeve in on itself next to the cut which usually will cause the sleeve to split at the hacksaw cut. The idea is to keep from hacking into the reusable part, in this case your LCA.

 

should have let me know I did the same thing today
I tried on one rear and it didn't budget til the rubber caught fire and the bushing rippped. It had a cam sleeve in it though so i was waiting on either part to give. I'll try the others again tomorrow if you got a front one out. My dog is not doing well so I gave up and came back in to sit with her

 

Those are fun huh Eric!?

 

sorry about your dog Andy

I just saw that the whiteline bushings for the damn things are >$150 and then I don't know what to do for cam bolts

 

I don't know.... what I did wasn't too bad but I still have to get the outer sleeve out of the rears.

Flaming bushing rubber is much what I imagine napalm to be like. And it's a damn mess!

coworker came over needing a carb job done on his motorcycle so at least then i had a gas soaked rag to clean all that crap off my tools

 

I hate doing lower control arms... and you didnt get the outer sleeevs out?what bushings are u putting in?

 

Leftover what?