Minnesota Focus Owners Club

Any of you truck guys replace your u-joints? Mine are a bit sloppy, are they the poopy ones that need to be pressed in/out?

alright ill find some time you get the beer we will do dis and the pipe swap( just to see the differance) i may have some time off this week end.. for the u-joints if they are the rear shaft alls you need is a hammer and a bench vise , if they are the fronts we need to remove a c-clip in the front diff.

I don't have a bench vise otherwise I would say lets go for it, it is the rear joints.

I am going to have the old lady call around for me today and get some quotes from napa n shit on how much they charge to press them in, my bro has them do the joints in his ricer s10.

Hell, when this weekend comes, I don't think I am going to have a work bench in the garage anymore, I am hoping tuesday to get some shit to get started on the garage of my dreams.

thats it man im gonna cry!!!! j/k actually alls ya need is a hammer and a hard floor the rears are cake!!!!

focinite wrote: thats it man im gonna cry!!!! j/k actually alls ya need is a hammer and a hard floor the rears are cake!!!!

Thats what I gathered on the ford truck forums.

I am hoping this weekend I am going to get like everything in the garage done but the stereo, ac, heat, and pc. Yes, a PC in the garage! Then, I can stream mp3's over wifi to the garage to play on my house stereo thats going to the garage(woman says no more loud music with the baby around).


After I get the garage done with AC, I think I should have an install/keg party to break it in.

So far, what I am planning on doing:

New work bench on oppisite side of garage, 3ft wide, 17 ft long, high enough to get the lawn mower and everything else under it, a shelf along the ceiling for the stereo and misc piddly shit, in the loft, shelves along both roof lines, add lighting up there, everything that is thunderbird related will go up there on the shelves, everything not needed in the house will go up there, in general, everything will go up there.

Then, I plan on adding 4 new dual-bulb 8' high output commercial lights, adding about 10 more outlets, all wired with 12ga wire for high draw applications, I will be adding a sub panel this summer and running 220 out there just in case I get an air compressor/welder down the road, and, becasue fo the draw of lights/tools, right now, the garage has 14ga wire and a 10 breaker, sally ass if you ask me.

I am going to price some sheet rock and corragate steel and see which is cheaper, which ever is cheaper is prob going to go on the walls in the garage.

Since my friend didn't sell me his stang, I bought a truck and the rest is going into the garage/house, I am hoping this fall I will find my cherry notch-back stang to molest.....mmmm 393 stroked cubic inches of raw NA power....

^^^^thats my drunken post

Here are some garage pics, I would wager that not much has changed since I took these pics...




Ok, so I don't own that car or that manifold anymore




The work bench is about 10x more of a mess...



mmmm mmmmm...change your oil or this shit happens...





This is why you want to pull the pan out from under your car, that you used to drain the oil into, before you run open headers on your v8...

ha hah ha ha ha ha ha ,, thats freaking classic, almost as good as testing for spark on a msd the old fashon way... lick the finger and be one with the spark test.. ha ha ha ha ha i love it.