Do me a huge favor?
DON'T FN DRIVE THAT LS UNTIL THIS IS FIXED!!!!
That my friend is all that's holding your rear wheel straight .... I'm not buying this bullcrap of, next paycheck or ... it will be alright ... or I'm a prick with an ego and on commission with Ford for OEM parts ... all that Blablabla crap, I could give a rats ass!
That there, if that let's go at 70mph on the freeway, the wheel spindle will flop around, take you three lanes hard left or right into the guardrails and the LS will not be the only thing done for.
Not kidding here !!! That shouldn't even have passed a safety and if on the roads should be considered a deathtrap and a danger to those around you and yourself.
Search what happened to member QuickLS, totaled his heavily modified LS coming off the on ramp into the guard rails. And he was on it trust me. Luckily he walked away.
This forum has come a long way, all the way back to 2000 from brand new LS owners to 2010, guys picking these things up for 4000-8000$ and modding to 2016 Facebook 800$ LS'es wanting body kits and stereo's then belly aching at us for threatening that they need to spend 1000's when they in their minds don't need to and suggesting we are blowing smoke up their asses with our suggestions.
We do it because we are silly idiots with nothing better to do right? Oh and we don't know what we're are talking about and have ego's .... remember that big mouth? Where he at now?
A lot of stuff has been covered a thousand times over on the forum, we are like parrots, repeating the same thinG over and over day in, week after week.
Very little searching goes on, and now with this new forum software, the search actually fn works the way it should.
We can show you, we can give you links, we can recommend where and what parts to get, we can point you directly to the workshop manual, we can take anyone step-by-step through it, yet we get jerked around continuously by members that either have their own ill conceived theories of why these plastics deteriorate or turn sour on us because they didn't like what we suggested or made mockery off.
See where I'm going with this?
Call me this, call me that .... could care less but when I or many others are here helping others day in day out with write ups, pics the whole nine yards we get shit on, get told we have egos, must be plastered drunk while offering up advice .... on purpose, depreciating the value of the car, scaring away potential new owners, why are we here then?
Too many new members here as of late, having just bought an 800$ LS that was someone else's neglected headache ... and yeah, don't like the answers given when suggested they are in for at least 3K worth of immediate repairs.
I offer no apologies, it is what it is .... they are going on 17yr old these cars ... find me one that doesn't need fixing!
Open wallet folks ... either that or wake up and start to smell the coffee. Try and ignore the 10001th repetitive new daily overheating should I use dye? Imma weld plastics, steam melts bottles, run unpressurized fixes all bull crap threads and posts.
But yeah, we have ego's ya think?
GLWR ... flame away!
I don't blame you.