Help from a Denver VXer?

[VxSport]

Anyone else available for a Meet, Greet & Diagnose on Sunday @ 10:30 am? Let's get together for a cup of Joe.

[MSHardeman]

Would love to meet up with y'all, but I'm heading over to Telluride on Friday for the weekend. I'll get over there for one of the Denver meets, I swear. It would be great to put faces to screen names.

Have fun replacing those timing belts.

[VXorado]

Put me down as "maybe", "if possible", or "love to but..."

If i'm free, i'll be there!!! There's a chance Amy and I will be staying up in the mountains Saturday night for a ski trip. There's also a chance we'll be skiing Saturday and returning home the same day. If we come back Saturday, I should have no problem meeting up for coffee and clunking.

Also Tom, I had a clunking a while back when I went over bumps. After a lot of troubleshooting, I found play in the lower driver side ball joint.

I posted the question on the planet and recieved some other good suggestions worth looking into.
http://forum.planetisuzoo.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=60654

[twalker920]

Also Tom, I had a clunking a while back when I went over bumps. After a lot of troubleshooting, I found play in the lower driver side ball joint.

The more I hear it, the more I think it sounds like suspension or something like the ball joint. It tends to happen more when I am on bumpy surfaces or coming to a stop.

Turning the tunes up is my temporary fix, but having a ball joint fail on Poison Spider Mesa (or where ever) would not be a good thing. Cue Wiley Coyote falling very very far down to the Colorado River. SPLAT!

[VxSport]

[QUOTE=VXorado;276274]Put me down as "maybe", "if possible", or "love to but..."

If i'm free, i'll be there!!!

Let me know if your going to be there on Sunday, if so.. I will bring the part that I have on hold for you.

[bartmanS4]

Is this the place your talking about? Around 10:30 Sunday right?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=wadsw...16,-105.090623

[twalker920]

Is this the place your talking about? Around 10:30 Sunday right?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=wadsw...16,-105.090623

You are correct sir! See all youz guyz Sunday morning

[jasonm621]

I have the pre drilled bar "tool" to get that crankshaft pulley nut off and back on torqued to spec. Youre more than welcome to using it! I probably couldnt help much with the mystery clunk but i think if i had to do a timing belt again i could do it in about half the time! I just bought the all in one dayco kit from autozone. It comes with the belt, tentioner, tentioner pulley, Idle pulley, and the water pump. Pretty nice kit although there is no marks on the timing belt. Its not a problem as long as you pay very close attention to the marks on the cams and project those marks over to the new belt with a silver sharpie... Let me know when you wanna take the plunge and we can have that beer we were talking about!

[Mile High VX]

I'm planning on being there for awhile...

VxSport if you're coming through Castle Rock let me know and we can convoy over to Starbucks!

[VxSport]

Sounds good to me..... meet at your church? 9:45?

I'm planning on being there for awhile...

VxSport if you're coming through Castle Rock let me know and we can convoy over to Starbucks!

[Mile High VX]

Sounds good to me..... meet at your church? 9:45?

Works for me...see you Sunday.

[twalker920]

I have the pre drilled bar "tool" to get that crankshaft pulley nut off and back on torqued to spec. Youre more than welcome to using it! I probably couldnt help much with the mystery clunk but i think if i had to do a timing belt again i could do it in about half the time! I just bought the all in one dayco kit from autozone. It comes with the belt, tentioner, tentioner pulley, Idle pulley, and the water pump. Pretty nice kit although there is no marks on the timing belt. Its not a problem as long as you pay very close attention to the marks on the cams and project those marks over to the new belt with a silver sharpie... Let me know when you wanna take the plunge and we can have that beer we were talking about!

Definitely! Can I ask how much the Autozone kit cost?

[VxSport]

I we see eveyone at Starbucks @ 10:30am today.

Mile High, I will see you at the church parking lot in Castle at 9:45am

[Mile High VX]

Great to see everyone this morning...sorry I had to cut out early.

Special thanks to bartmanS4 for allowing me the great joy of driving his VX with his 5 speed swap...can you say burnout....

Simply awesome!

Now I have a whole new project to consider and my beautiful bride will not be happy...

[twalker920]

Yes thanks all who showed up! Great to meet everyone, and see Mile High again! I think we got my noise figured out (sticky/worn front sway bar mount). So I have a project for next weekend. Colorado folks need to figure out the Moab convoy details at some pooint, and if you're camping I will post the RV/Campsite I will be at shortly (with the luxo-5th wheel including garage o' toys).



I was behind BartmanS4 for a few miles. Got a few double takes as the two silver VXs went by. His 5-speed conversion blew me out of the water on the on ramp! Not that we were going fast or anything illegal...