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Repair Suspension and Straighten Frame

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1972 Charger Richard Petty Tribute Stock Car Gets a Fresh Engine! (Make It Race Again!)

What happens here

Identify and remove the incorrect bolts and nuts from the upper control arms and tie rod assembly. The video highlights that some bolts are not proper Grade 8 and a tie rod nut is completely loose. Replace these with appropriate Grade 8 bolts featuring nylock nuts for enhanced safety and stability. Use a wrench for removal and installation. Simultaneously, a Port-A-Power hydraulic ram is utilized to straighten bent sections of the frame caused by previous impacts or stress.

Goal: Correct unsafe suspension and steering components and straighten the car's frame.

Tools and materials

  • Grade 8 Bolts — Replacing inferior bolts in the suspension
  • Impact Driver Milwaukee — Quickly removing nuts and bolts
  • Nylock Nuts — Securing Grade 8 bolts to prevent loosening
  • Port-A-Power Hydraulic Ram — Bending and straightening bent frame sections
  • Wrench Set Various — Removing and installing bolts and nuts

What they say

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to be two of the same size right so we are going to get these hodgepodge bolts out of the upper control arms we're going to replace them with something but before we do that we're going to like bend these back out these are all pushed in either this car was crashed or something and whoever put this together just threw a bunch of washers in there to try to make it kind of straight i don't even know what's going on over here this is like double nut that's not safe that's just not it's just not good one two three four five six wow wow maybe they're not totally terrible these these nuts are oval do you see that yeah they're not totally round so they're kind of like a de facto lock nut like a lot of seat belt bolts will be that way on factory cars but this is a grade five bolt you can tell by the number of hashes on here see there's three so that means that it's grade five and if it had five hashes that would mean it's grade eight because that makes total absolute sense five hashes is not grade five it's grade eight who came up with that so that is the metal bending well support power it's designed to go it's designed for pushing body panels out you can actually you know adjust the frame you can do stuff with it it i don't know how heavy duty this one is but it'll work it's right there okay yep silver box this is quite substantial never it's pretty heavy this should be interesting learning experience i'll climb in there and then you just hand me parts okay that's easy all right so we need stuff that yeah that'll work all right grandpa get your ass back over here how are you gonna get that in there that's what she don't hurt defender yeah watch it watch the paint how did i get recruited in this mess i thought you wanted you seem pretty excited to get this thing out you jumped in for anywhere else well it was poor power sledgehammer fall don't grade eight nuts and bolts with nylock on them so they're all good now it'll be interesting to see how the camber and everything lines up once we get the wheels back on yeah that one was not even tight at all you know what that one does nothing well what happens if that pops out yeah that wheel goes towards the wall wasn't even tight awesome this will at 6 000 rpm will have us at 85 mile an hour okay so i mean i don't know how much faster you'd like to go in this thing but i don't i don't know if i want to get this thing over 100 mile an hour i don't know i don't think like the integrity of the cage is what i'm worried…

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