1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Facepalm*

 

Those rims are yuck

 

Yea, doesn’t look right

 

Went and got a burger and while I was entirely focused on my food in the parking lot someone approached me....



Turns out he had just bought this minty Z a week ago for 2k from a widow. He scored, nice clean 86. Another local buddy to add to the group!

 

I would safely bet that I am on the only person on here old enough to have ever dialed a crank telephone. And only because it was rural W.Va.

 

Yeah, got me beat there. Never seen a crank phone that was still in service. But I've dialed some old ass rotaries and even some later model phones that still had pulse dialing.

 

Dang dude how old are you if youre using a crank telephone

 

I've used the one in my grandparents home in MO, they had one up until they moved into a retirement home maybe 12 years ago

 

Did you also walk up hill both ways in the snow to school?

 

With polio

 

65, or maybe 18 with 47 years experience!

 

Makes antivax joke*

 

Had a friend who had polio. F'ed up his foot and leg really bad.

 

Okay, wait, how old are you? Also that's terrible that your friend had to experience that, but also how old was he because that has had a pretty solid vaccine since like the early 50s

 

Really, where you had to count the number of short and long rings to see if the call was for you, or some of the other 8 or 10 families on that line???

 

65, so yeah, he contracted it in mid 50's.

 

Ahh ok.. I've rebooted with OEM replacement boots when aftermarket CV joint boots failed. I found a brand of axle with hardware that would hold up on a lowered car except the boots only lasted 3 years. So I switched to the better made OEM boot and used a completely type of grease. I'm fours years into a test that's holding up without issue. The CV axle cost $77, the OEM boot was $30, and the grease was $10. So for $117 wound up with an aftermarket CV axle that is lasting longer because it uses an OEM boot.

A new OEM CV axle is almost $500 for that car.

The OEM boots are thick and usually last 15+ on regular cars. I don't know the thickness of Toyota boot rubber.

I'm seeing some of the higher priced aftermarket boots move to Dupont Hytrel boots that are thinner but are supposed to last longer than regular rubber.

Aftermarket boots splitting all to hell after 3 years.





The new OEM boots on the left are much thicker than the aftermarket boots that split.



These are new aftermarket axles with OEM outer boots.



Used this type of grease from Omnilubricants.



The old grease didn't cover well with the additional stress from lowering.

 

Ah okay, for some reason I thought you were in your late 40s or early 50s. I'll tell you what, my generation and some of the parents a bit older than me may not appreciate the fact that there's such affordable cures and preventative measures for horrible diseases like that, but I sure as hell do. No way I'd want to go through that.

 

That's a party line. People would listed in on their neighbors calls to fuel the gossip mill.

 

Just made some outgoing calls with it lol. Using the rotary the dial.