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Old Nov 16, 2006 | 07:06 PM
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This weekend I will be replacing upper ball joints, doing an oil change, changing the rear end fluid, dynamating the trunk, and ripping my driver's side door apart to figure out why the window doesn't close right at high speed. Wish me luck and any advise would be nice.
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Old Nov 17, 2006 | 12:14 AM
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Give an update on your project and post some pix. I am interested in the dynamat project and hope to do mine soon. Good luck!

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Old Nov 17, 2006 | 04:43 AM
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Good luck.
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Old Nov 17, 2006 | 06:20 AM
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Wish I could be there to help you. It is supposed to snow here.
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Old Nov 17, 2006 | 07:24 AM
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probably going to do the oil change this weekend too. Getting ready to put her away til April
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Old Nov 18, 2006 | 07:16 PM
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After much fighting, got the ball joints done, the oil change is done, the window is a work in progress, (freakin hidden screw behind the lock slide ) I need to take it for a ride and see if the window still bows out and gets hung up on the metal trim on the roof. Rear end gear oil will be monday and dynamat will probably be tomorrow. Ran out of time at the Hobby Shop because the MOOG ball joints I ordered had a defective bolt in it and when I torqued it, it snapped, had to go on an excursion to find another one.
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Old Nov 18, 2006 | 07:42 PM
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That is a bunch of work to be done.
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Wow that's quite a list you have. Good Luck with it.

But a the risk of looking like an idiot :o , can you enlighten me a tell me what dynamating the cargo area means?

Thanks
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Old Nov 18, 2006 | 08:18 PM
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can you enlighten me a tell me what dynamating the cargo area means?
Dynamat is a sound insulation material that works by reducing the resonance in body panels on your car. In other words, the Dynamat should lower the road noise, make the bass on the stereo sound crisper, and get rid of some of the resonance from the Flomaster Mullers I have on the car (not too much though, love the sound of the exhaust too much ). Most of the custom vehicles on shows like "overhaulin" have this stuff all over the place. I put it in the trunk of my Mustang and it made a world of difference.
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OK Thanks,

I was kinda' thinking it was something along those lines but wasn't sure.

Thanks again.

Gary
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Wish I could be there to help you. It is supposed to snow here.
I will probably go riding tomorrow with the top down. Yeah, life in Florida is a bitch. I visit snow, it doesn't visit me.
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