Random Tech Questions

[JB]

Is the $20 upgrade for MOOG balljoints? I have had good luck thus far with them in the bronco.

[breckboarder55]

Is the $20 upgrade for MOOG balljoints? I have had good luck thus far with them in the bronco.

I'm not sure, I was just told they were the upgrade from the "house brand" and appear to have much higher quality.

[KrazyKarl02]

1. Do we/anyone have any part store hookups anymore?

2. Is it worth it to spend the extra 20 bucks a piece on ball joints to upgrade from the house brand at O'reillys?

3. Edit, what about the (extra 70 dollar a piece) adjustable ball joints?

Thanks

1 - I don't think TAMOR has one anymore, say you are with the sports car club, I think they have one.

2 - Ball joints, yes, get the moog. If you get "auto drive" or whatever the house brand is, you "auto-drive" right back to the parts store for the better ones.

[Sharpe]

TAMOR does still have an account with O'Reillys, but I dont know how much it saves. For Napa, use the sports car club.

[uglyota]

you whores I asked about Moog balljoints a couple of weeks ago and nobody replied

[colman]

go moog all the way, if your going to do your ball jounts in town i will be working in the morning before i leave town. call me and we will get your **** done

[AggieTJ2007]

I'm not sure, I was just told they were the upgrade from the "house brand" and appear to have much higher quality.

do you need to replace yours our just keep some as spares incase you break a shaft and it takes out the balljoint?

[tommy53002]

I work at the napa in bryan but the discount isnt that great.... also we dont stock moog.

[colman]

i used to work at oreilly in bryan and their employee discount is great on hard parts, just saying

now time for jb to give his two cents about advance

[bburris]

If it hasn't changed, the Car Quest house brand used to be made by Moog. I don't know why more people don't check for oddball crap there, the ones in Corpus stocked all kinds of parts for weird vehicles.

[Seth]

how is ccok's napa? I have only messed with the CS one. heard mixed reviews on cooks.

[85cj7]

My opinion is that that place suck donkey dick I've gone there a few times for some odd stuff, I think one time was for a rear axle bearing. The place is filled with ****, so much you can barely walk around and the one fat ass that I remember behind the counter took out a caliper and started measuring the bearing to compare it to the 20 odd ones they are sitting in a pile on a table. When I asked why don't they just look up the part number which was clearly visible on the bearing the guy told me he couldn't find 'the book' and sent me to another store.

[JB]

i used to work at oreilly in bryan and their employee discount is great on hard parts, just saying

now time for jb to give his two cents about advance

The advance TAMOR account was under my phone number and was a Comm Level 4 account. Then someone found out and the discount decreased significantly. Now, the counter help is worse than at an AutoZone. Back when Jerry, jeremiah, Kyle, Aaron, and for a short time, cook, worked there, it was much better.

I go to NAPA CS now. Although there floor selection is pretty sparse and their computer system/credit card runners, blows. They seem to mainly use the old books still.

[Seth]

Yeah, I like them as well. Multiple guys that I see every time I go in there, although sometimes you have to pry a little bit to get them to check availability on some things. I like that they have cheap hardware also.

[85cj7]

I got some really ****ty gas up in Clayton, started pinging on the tow back to Dallas. "Service Engine Soon" light is remaining on. According to owners manual this is because of misfires due to poor gas. Burned half the tank -filled it, burned another half-filled it. Scanned OBDII came up with misfires in 4,5,7. Now it isn't pinging but the engine is noticeably shaking (enough to shake the whole truck) when at idle and at low pressure on the pedal it rocks. If I give it more gas it smoothes out and the rocking stops. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

PS. Replaced spark plugs 3,000 miles ago. When this started the truck was fine untill hills, then the added rpms started to make a ping, I could actually feel it burning pockets of bad gas and then run correctly for a while. Now the shaking. What’s up?