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Glad to say the drums are now successfully re-homed. Nice to meet you Corey, and hope the swap goes smoothly!

Hi Corey - Well what a nice surprise - somebody who can actually use them and pretty close by to boot. Awesome! Yeah - that's not real far at all. I'll see if I can PM you my phone (haven't done that yet on the forum), and we can chat about timing. Actually the wife loves an excuse to go to...

Thought I'd put this up here for a bit in case there is actually someone who could use these before I chuck them in a scrap metal place. They are 9" drums with small spindles and they still rotate, which is about all I care to know about them at this point. Feel free to chime in if you think...

It was actually your earlier post which caused me to go that direction so, thanks!

Email sent to Moog (I was civil). Duralast parts ordered from Autozone - should be available for pickup tomorrow morning. Hoping weather cooperates.

I'm at work right now -will shoot them an email with pics when I get home, thanks for the link.

Got my replacement K783 today (9/7/17). Paid for 1-day shipping & somebody sat on the order for a day so it took 2. But I digress... Imagine the extremity of my joy when I beheld the new part having pretty much the same problem as the previous one. Not quite as offset and no crack (but how...

Precisely what happened to my last job repairing pro audio equipment. Not worth fixing when you can buy it so cheap (China made).

Well, I want to believe Moog is still a cut above and this was just an errant defect. Accordingly I have a replacement on the way with 1-day shipping (getting this stuff from RockAuto). Fingers crossed I can beat the forecast rain, ending of one of the longest dry stretches in my memory here...

Here at the later stages of a fairly involved suspension repair I reach for the new Moog lower ball joints - gonna paint them up real pretty before installation. Then I noticed how awfully the K783 (Left) one was assembled. The swage is completely off center, out-of-round, and cracked on one...

No movie stunts, just years of driving Seattle area roads. Yes on both counts about the cracks. Nasty.

Another update, and it's not good. This WAS going to be a post showing progress so far, but while cleaning before reinstalling the (now welded) K-Member I found this (I thinks she's trying to tell us something):

Thanks for posting that. Funny - I was just telling my wife how probably very few other FABO members have 4-door rigs, and on cue your post popped up! :thumbsup:

Thanks for your concern - I've had those things kicking around for decades and even used to use them for holding up a corner of a car (but always with the jack still in place as a back-up (yikes!). Yeah - I don't trust them for much. In this case I had the shorter HF stands placed and as I put...

Wow thanks everybody for the replies! Lots of ideas here. I'm leaning toward fabbing a cross-bay support out of a 4x4 to control the tendency to tip and jacking/blocking under the pan for most of the engine weight. Car is already up on 4 jackstands (and the rear wheels) for the suspension...