vdubyah73 wrote:
There certainly is a core group, who you kidding? Yourself?
by the way, whats with the more often than not counterpointing tips that I give. The most ridiculous one was the one about only being able to use VW's special tool to check balljoints. Everybody that has that special tool raise their hands, ok anybody who has access to that special tool raise their hands, yeah thought so. My miserable father called it instinctive contradiction.
I think there are people who sometimes agree with each other, but there is NO synchronized group, Bill. We all are individuals. There is NO "in" group, there is NO "out" group, there is NO "you all". There is a "we all" on the Itinerant Air-Cooled site.
When I read your choice to *interpret* my responses as "counter-pointing" your posts, I think that it has more to do with how you choose to read. Perhaps you can only see belittling as you belittle me for being "ridiculous". Here is exactly what I wrote:
The reason VW has that special tool is that the steering knuckle is heavily preloaded with both torsion arms. The tool they have pulls the torsion arms together to check the lower ball joint, then pries them apart to check the upper ball joint. It is next to impossible to get a decent idea of ball joint play with any other method.
Where did I say that you can only use their tool? What is so ridiculous about what I wrote? I stand behind my post regarding ball joints. It was not an occasion for you to get all
sarcastic here about "who has that special tool raise your hands, thought so".
Geeze, it's like whack-a-mole around here sometimes . . .
Colin
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