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Build Threads / Re: Don's 2024 Ram 3500
« Last post by Flyin6 on Today at 07:01:56 PM »
Installing that Carli piece is not all that easy.

The cylinder is gas-charged to around 200 psi, I think. Anyway, compressing it is not for someone recovering from RA!

The tricky part is that there are four little alignment spacers that fit either side of the heim joints. So while compressing that thing and trying to line it up, one needs to somehow slip in the bolt just a little ways, then get it through the first bushing, then the Heim, and then the fun begins. While you are pushing the thing to compress it, with your third and fourth hand you need to force in the lower spacer...to where it aligns with this spring-loaded bear trap, then get that bolt through the second (pinched in place) bushing then through the mounting ear.

If you can do that, well kudos to you because I only got it after some focused praying and zero cursing or bad thoughts.

Get that done and you're nearly finished. I did not torque, just got everything snugged up. The locking nuts will keep everything in place, but if you read of a dually careening off a mountainside with a lop-sided camper on the back, well, I guess it loosened back up!
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Build Threads / Re: Don's 2024 Ram 3500
« Last post by Flyin6 on Today at 06:53:53 PM »
I had just had the stocker off so removing it again was pretty straight forward

Carli's piece looks so much more refined.
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Build Threads / Re: Don's 2024 Ram 3500
« Last post by Flyin6 on Today at 06:51:52 PM »
Next up was the front Carli steering stabilizer.
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Build Threads / Re: Don's 2024 Ram 3500
« Last post by Flyin6 on Today at 06:51:03 PM »
These two are never far away. The big one was laying against either rear dual wheel just before I started on the liner re-installation. As if the dog knew where not to be!
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Build Threads / Re: Don's 2024 Ram 3500
« Last post by Flyin6 on Today at 06:49:22 PM »
Before the weather turns foul, I will get up in there with a bunch of 3M cavity wax and spray a good coat over my arms and hair! :-0

The stance is what I was looking for:
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Build Threads / Re: Don's 2024 Ram 3500
« Last post by Flyin6 on Today at 06:47:53 PM »
I began the chore day by reinstalling the rear wheel well liners

They are pretty big, but unlike the GM units, these are a lot thinner and floppier. I trimmed four big inside flaps away that were obscuring the part of the overload spring that I like to view to see if they are in contact with my revised pads. Once I did that the liners were easier to handle.

Oh, and the airbags are holding air just fine now. It was the Pac-Air flexible inlet fittings that were the culprit.
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Sold the old tires and rims, $600. Offsets the tire purchase and I have more room.
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Faith Discussion / Re: Word(s) of the day
« Last post by Atkinsmatt on Today at 07:11:40 AM »
‭1 Peter 5:7 ESV‬
[7] casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
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Soldier Up / Re: Coming back from RA
« Last post by Flyin6 on May 04, 2024, 04:04:12 PM »
I have severe osteoarthritis in one hip and more not quite severe in a knee and other hip. Tried cortisone injections with limited success. The past 6 months I have had injections of Monovisc in the severe hip and have had some relief. Next will be replacements. I have had good results from keeping my weight down and avoiding sugar any flour.
Copy on that.
I have all but eliminated sugar, but seem to eat bread more often. I think the most important thing about bread is to stay away from enriched flour. Sourdough and more "ancient" and less processed wheat is best.
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Faith Discussion / Re: Word(s) of the day
« Last post by Atkinsmatt on May 04, 2024, 07:35:43 AM »
‭Psalm 139:11-12 ESV‬
[11] If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” [12]  even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
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