I LOVE YOU MAN !
It wasn't a torque argument. Its about "me" and my perfectionist self and always preferring to do things myself rather than let someone else do it or getting help doing it because I work better alone. I like working with others once I've learned their work ethic and besides all that I'm pretty slow and lax when it comes to getting this stuff done. I might be reorganizing the garage for 30 minutes to an hour before the actual work begins with dilly dallying in between. I've learned being a lil overweight it is best to take working on the car slow cause its too physically painful to try and go as fast as I'd really like to. lol
A/C - Yes indeed - last place. I bought a DVD from Autozone today that tells you how to do it all and I've read up on it. From feedback I've been seeing from others its a good chance my compressor it no good anymore and trying to just replace the clutch on it may be futile. In any case I know that in its life of over 100k miles it has NEVER been serviced so the dryer in it is likely crap not to mention the system could probably use a flush. The main issue I have though is actually what to do with the R134a refrigerant. I read that even though its safe for the environment in normal use that it is still supposed to be disposed of and contained properly and I really don't want to be in the vicinity of it if I'd try and go discharging it into the atmosphere. I may opt to have a shop or someone drain the system and then I'll do the rest.
Rack - I may take you up on this. It isn't like working under the car on the side of it... cause in that position you can get out fast if something where to go wrong (creaky crack noise and a slight quick lowering or something) but doing the rack means you are full on underneath the bottom center of the car with barely any clearance between your nose and the vehicle. I have already summarized and made my own procedure list of what needs to be done for the Rack so we shall see. For the first test runs and possibly a few in town trips I'll be leaving the old outer tie rod ends on for now. Their rubber tops are OFF of them and I have coated a thick layer of grease over the balljoints on them in the meantime. I don't plan on doing much driving before having those replaced.
Status:
See this link and my FURY within (lol):
http://www.3si.org/forum/showthread....57#post4491057