FINALLY got the LCA skids on today! The package initially arrived minus the essential U bolt nuts,
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so I had to call and ask for them to send me some. I waited a few days and hadn't received them, so I called again. Whoops! The girl who was supposed to ship them was off for a few days and
there they layed on her desk!
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The guy on the phone then told me that he'd mail them out himself, and so he did.
The other day, I got some free time to work on them. The driver's side plate was a difficult install due to the U bolt wanting to hang up on the spring as it was being placed over the axle. It went on, eventually. Put the plate on, installed the carriage bolts, and Plate 1 was good to go!
Next, took the passenger side bolt out of the front of the LCA and wouldn't you know it--something shifted cockeyed. I couldn't get the bolt back through the hole! I had Dad helping me jimmy the LCA to try to line up the holes as I attempted to slide the bolt back in place. After a huge fight (with the bolt, not Dad), it went back in. That was it for that day! One down, one to go...later, much later.
Today, I decided to get the passenger side plate installed. Dad got the bright idea to take the bolt out of the rear of the LCA to take the tension off the front as I was working on it. Well, that DID help with the plate installation, which went rather well. But of course, now we had the same problem in reverse--an angry bolt in the REAR of the LCA that refused to go in!
You should have seen the collection of tools we had out--the pipe wrench, the cold chisel, the pry bar...nothing was lining up those damn holes! So, we decided to fight dirty and get out the impact wrench and the compressor. Once he pried the LCA into place where I could insert the tip of the bolt back in a bit, I took the impact wrench to it and forced it through. Success!
![Grin ;D](http://www.pajeeps.org/forum/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
Moral of the story: Check your shipment for missing pieces as soon as it arrives, never go by the suggested installation time, and if it fit once, it'll fit again!
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