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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 5:41 pm 
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headgasket wrote:
Centrepoint tower collapsed onto westpac and commonwealth bank buildings. At first they thought 9/11 was happening so they grounded all flights, but it turns out it was only a mini with broken steering. Anyways, the bank buildings collapsed and if you are with Westpac or Commbank, your credit card debt is now zero!


Cooool. Who needs a Global Financial Crisis.
Serves them right for charging ridiculous bank fees, issuing credit cards to idiots and profiteering off ordinary people's misery.






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So I bought new high tensile bolts (with unthreaded shank too!) and installed them in the car. For those wondering, the sources I found say 316 stainless has 75 - 85% the tensile strength of grade 5 (metric 8.8).

Now, because there is a very slight clunking, only rarely, where do you think that might be coming from? Do I need new tie bar ends? Can I they be tightened? When jacked up, the steering turns lock-to-lock as smooth as a baby's bottom.

Also bought some liqui moly MoS2 engine treatment to see if I can reduce my oil burning. Idle hasn't changed, but the smoke when I give it a boot has disappeared.

* People who are going to tell me I'm a baby killer needn't bother replying.

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