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awesome, ill just whack a couple cable ties under there to keep it captive at least.

damn you luke. :down:

Nah it ain't Dave

picsofdumpedorban

haha, thats the only pic i have really, but its 310mm from the top of the centre cap to the gaurd.

Max low or is there more in it?

(thats for Dave :down:)

BTW Luke thread bumping is defunct on NS, it stays in the order the threads were posted, to get a new one 'at the top' so to speak you have to make a whole new thread.

Edited by AndrewJZX100

The sale threads on NS don't bump. They are fixed and won't move up.

Loz did it last year after threads were only lasting on the front page for around 10 minutes due to people constantly bumping.

However if they don't sell i will buy them off you at some stage for my 25 conversion, just don't have the cash ATM.

Edited by D_Stirls

lol, maybe, need a c spanner though...

c'mon jarrad, i was tucking bitumen with the celsior, this is low enough...

... for now.

Edited by scandyflick
haha someone should let them know they have

provided many LOLs for the sau team.

on behalf of your friends at sau we would like to extend are warmest regards for this lol factor.

hell if everyone that got a laugh out of it chipped in a buck they'd have their cash probs sorted :down:

My God Ben your opinions are scary.

Howard has led Australia through the most prosperous 12 years in the nations existence. In fact I am willing to bet everything I have that were Labor in power for the last 12 years we would be in a VERY different future right now. It is unarguable that Australia is faring as one of the best ecomonically and socially in the world right now. Go to Japan and look at their economy right now. Or America with no jobs, collapsed property market, no dole, no free health care.

Now some of Australia's current affluence is off the back of a strong (particularly developing) world economy, but most of it is through brilliant initiatives and strong economic planning and leadership.

He was instrumental in writing the Work Choices policy, which yes, from a purely blue collar perspective did limit worker's powers and take away some penalty rates, but if Howard had won the election, and Work Choices fully implemented, thousands of factories that are heading offshore (Bonds, Hard Yacka, Holden etc etc) would have stayed in Australia providing tens of thousand of jobs. Under Krudd these jobs are LONG GONE NEVER TO COME BACK. How are these people going to pay their mortgages? With a couple of free handouts? Prolong the suffering, yes, but solve anything, NO.

Mandatory detention. Would you rather have the govt let tens of thousand of ILLEGALS wander Australia? Had Liberals not taken a hard stance against ILLEGALS, word would have spread throughout the world and every man and his dog would have been trying to illegally enter Australia. In fact you will find that under Howard we have had a record high amount of both skilled labour and politically oppressed migrants enter the country via legal options. How the hell could you condone not locking up people who COME HERE ILLEGALLY ON FISHING VESSELS? Are you mad?

Children overboard had nothing whatsoever to do with Howard. It had all to do with Labor driven political media scaremongering and absolute lies. Did Howard push children into the water? NO. Did he order Naval officers to do it? NO. Did hundreds of ILLEGAL border crossers pack into an unseaworthy boat that sank? YES. Did Aus Navy officers rescue the whole lot? YES. I don't understand the issue here. Had Aus Navy not been there, the whole boat load of people would have drowned. How is this a blight on Howard?

Now WMDs are a no-brainer. 1). Back up your allies - we did not have a choice - this is what allies do. 2). Had the world not taken action against suspicion of WMDs, when clearly Hussein et al would not let weapons inspectors enter sites/regions etc. then clearly the world 'police' is not doing it job. What did Hussein have to hide? If no-one had taken action and a chemical weapon used on another country what would you be saying then? You would be screaming blue murder they should have done something.

*shakes head*

lol at you Andrew!!!......I'll tell you what scary is when I get back from the toilet and feeding the stupid cat!

stay tuned for a strong response sunshine!

oh yeah, question, what are the torque settings for the strut top bolts and the bolts that connect the struts to the knuckles? anyone?

strut tops = tight enough to worry if this last little nip with be the one that snaps them :down:

hub to strut = massive fk off breaker bar tight (using wheel nuts on the bolts atm, gotta do it up nun-spec :thumbsup:)

i love being the high bidder on an item from ebay for a whole week, after

putting on a ridiculous bid to make sure i dont get out-bid by 50c (always happens)

<1m to go, and some mother facker with a quicker connection than me comes and out bids me by a whole $1

:down:

asswipe

Craig rather than bid on items try sniping them >>eBay Sniper<<

lol, maybe, need a c spanner though...

c'mon jarrad, i was tucking bitumen with the celsior, this is low enough...

... for now.

i have spanners Dave

does anyone here run or used to run 'racing logic' coilovers? im thinking about getting some for the 31, and just wanted to know if any of you guys/gals have any experience with them

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