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u can make some decent money off them.... i use to harvest pecans, can pears, and bag okra.... to sell, cuz i grow them all myself every year.... i have 3 apple and 3 orange tree's that should produce nicely next year, they started to produce this year, but not enough to sell.... and now im only down to 1 pear tree and 8 okra plants now, but the okra is still giving me about 3 gallon bags worth or more each week still.....
 
We should have a pecan harvest focus meet when they are ripe!
 
I was in san antonio today at six flags.
And not going to kemah, it's my gf's coworker's bday party
 
a) ok.... kart meet then

b) me likes not no-a/c mods in houston :p

c) ANYONE knows if changing bushings in rear control arms, both lower and upper, is as difficult and requiring a press like the front support arm?
 
a) having no ac for a few years gets u used to the heat
b) i haz a fofo wagon with ac incase i get to hot ;)
c) i would assume so but let the more knowledgeable peeps get in on that question
 
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Chris here is the link to the How To on the rear control arm bushing replacement right HERE . It does look like you will need a press to press the old ones out and new ones in.
 
Here is what the limb looked like before it fell to the chain saw. No serious damage to the roof but the car port is very banged up.

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Chris here is the link to the How To on the rear control arm bushing replacement right HERE . It does look like you will need a press to press the old ones out and new ones in.
Thanx Paul, I actually found this after posting here, so yeah, probably cost of new bushings+pay someone to press+chemicals to clean and de-rust control arm+paint, would together cost more than buying new control arm, ehh still wondering what to do on that one....
 
My car sounds like an old spring bed from a whore house, and I can see bushings, wanna change em all, but due to $ restrictions first I'll do back, and later front ones.
 
indeed sway bar end link bushings, and sway bar to frame bracket bushings, are the most noisy ones, I just figured if i'm digging there to swap springs, shocks, sway bar bushings, and to paint calipers, then I may as well take care of control arms.
If I do it all at once, then I need to pay only once for align.
 
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If you know it's the sway bar bushings then why go through all that work to replace the rear control arm bushing that are more than likely perfectly fine?
 
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