Diary of a Madman..... OZ-T's build and pics

Not sure if they can use the U bolts in currently using with my AAL but they did mention something about bushings, which was included in the price.

 

We're having two conversations OZ. Let me try to clear it up.

To buy the springs in the U.S would cost me $380 USD. With the exchange that translates to $507 CAD.

To buy the springs locally would cost me $680.

So I'm assuming that by the time I pay for shipping etc the springs from the U.S. would be close to costing the same as if I bought them here.

 

There is no brokerage or duty on truck parts if you use Seawings , just GST and their cost to ship is incredibly inexpensive , I've used them for about 1/2 dozen things

 

Sweet!!! You've made spending money, emptying my wallet, and aggravating my wife much easier. All in one simple post.

The latter not being something I enjoy but sometimes it happens.

Are you local or up Island?

 

Thanks for the info btw.

 

Do you clear stuff yourself once it gets here or do you use a Seawing broker?

 

Seawings brings it in , their office / depot is in the commercial part of the Sidney airport , they give you the paperwork when you get there , you walk over to the customs office in the main terminal , pay your GST , bring the paperwork back to Seawings , pay the shipping and leave with your gear

If you email them with the weight of the item they can give you a quote and some places will ship for free within the lower 48

 

Thanks again.

 

Are you on the island? If so, are you local or up island. Wouldn't mind having a look at your truck if your local, if it's not too much trouble.

 

No worries

 

Sent you a pm

 

Got it. Thanks.

 

Well I'll be damned. I didn't know you had a build. Nice job man. Nice job

 

Thats cause nothing ever happens so it's usually at about page 1 million of the Builds Forum

 

During a recent service we discovered that the balljoints on my old style LR UCA's had finally given up after 5 years , and the bushings were looking suspect .

Having read about a bunch of guys having luck getting their old style LR UCA's warrantied by SPC I fired them off an email asking if there was anything they could do for me . As I originally purchased the arms online through Toytec they suggested I go through them first as apparently Toytec prefers to handle their own warranty issues . The response from Toytec was pretty much what I expected that I was outside of the warranty period and that bushings and balljoints were wear items and they offered me 5% off new product for being a TW member .

No hard feelings towards Toytec because I really didn't expect a reseller to honour something outside of the regular timeframe , but I sent Toytec's response on to SPC to see if I was indeed at a dead end with this and would have to spring for new parts . The SPC rep said he would forward it on to his manager , manager contacted me a couple days later asking me for some info on the truck and serial numbers on the arms and a couple days ago he shipped me brand new arms free of charge / no shipping charge . The only stipulation was they had to ship to a US address so I used a freight forwarding service I have used before and today I went and picked them up at the airport . Total cost to me was $25 for the importation / shipping from Blaine , WA

A new set of arms was going to cost me $650 by the time I paid the currency conversion to US , shipping and GST

SPC customer service rules

 

Hopefully next week , gotta talk to my bud that owns the garage not sure what his schedule is between Christmas and New Years

 

Yeah no major drama

 

I'm going to put on my new / used LCAs and 1/4" top plate spacers both sides when we do the UCAs , plus its time for brakes

 

Did you ever cut out /take care of your siezed LCA bolt?

 

Thats happening with this next go round

I'm replacing the LCA's with another set of used OEM ones I purchased and refurbed , plus replacing the cam bolts with another set of OEM ones + grease