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all right
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so this is a 2015 Subaru
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Forester okay it's got
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130 over 135,000 miles the lower control
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arms just went out um it was shaking
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pretty bad at times and I'm going to
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show you what it looks like when it's
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bad okay so this one here see how wobbly
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that is like I'm just using my thumb
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that thing is l
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this thing is bad and to identify it
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what I did was
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generally I was reading on the forums
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the passenger side tends to go bad
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before the driver's side and so I jacked
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up the wheel and then I shook it left
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and right and front and back um and it
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was wobbly a little bit wobbly and so
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that's how I was able to identify if it
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was the left or the right side um I
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shook the wheel on the other side of the
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vehicle and it was fine so this is the
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culprit right here it's the
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inside don't mean look it's it's it's
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actually coming out
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like it's
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pretty pretty bad this is the new one
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there's like no wiggle room no wiggle
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can't wiggle anything it's tight solid
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so the rubber bushing is all cracked up
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and bad you can kind of see it here
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but um it's actually a pretty easy
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job okay so I'll show you guys what to
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do next all right
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so I'm replacing the lower control arm
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passenger side 2015 Subaru
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Forester okay
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um pretty easy to do
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surprisingly I thought it was going to
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be a lot harder than I thought but
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essentially you've got three
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parts um you've got the one in the back
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over there you got to take take this
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part off which is actually pretty easy
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to take off
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um I use uh the metric system um pretty
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standard I mean I just use this kind of
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tool kit so I didn't really need any
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fancy tools and then there was a nut
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over here that I took out looks like a
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let see looks like that okay the
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bolt um came out from the back over
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there and then the knuckle was the one
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below which was probably the hardest one
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to bang down bang out but there is a
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secret to that what you want to do is
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once you take this little pinch pinch
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bolt off you want to uh slide this
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little chisel in and wiggle it around
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and Hammer it in to split that open a
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little bit more it drops the knuckle
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much easier okay so the knuckle will
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drop off a lot easier that way I banged
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it probably a lot 20 times 30 times um
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but after I used the Chisel more it came
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out a lot easier
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so that's how you do a lower control arm
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let's see if I can try to
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put a video here all right guys driver
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side 2015 Subaru
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forcer okay took the wheels off jacked
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it up through
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the stands over there with a Jack and
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extra Tire in front in case it collapses
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so I don't kill myself anyways um I just
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did the passenger side
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and um you'll see a video on that uh the
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the passenger side was pretty bad okay
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um so here's the areas we got to work on
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number one right here okay this bolt
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easy to come
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out underneath this is a bolt and then
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over here there's a pinch of Bolt over
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here
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too um it's on the other side on the
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front
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side right there now before I do this
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and then the sway bars before I do
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this I'm going to get some PB
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Blaster so I'll be
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back okay so I just removed that plastic
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piece over there there was like four
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bolts um I think it a size 12 or
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something like
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that then it just kind of slides off I'm
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hanging off one bolt over there just
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wanted to Mo move it out of the way oh
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God let me see if I
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have here I can
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this phone on while I
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record I hope it gets everything okay
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left to
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loose got a breaker
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bar I used a PB
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Blaster so
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nice and easy just going to loosen
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everything up and
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then use my power tools
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to remove it a little bit
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faster I don't have anything fancy here
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guys all I have is a little
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Makita let's
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see it size is that 19 mm left
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TOS 19
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mm there it
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is this thing fell
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off all right
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so next I'm going to take the pinch bolt
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off see if you can see
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that pinch your
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bolt be right
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over
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here that's what I
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thought oh
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Sheri okay
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so I got to take off the sway bars
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too
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um let's do
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that
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in sway
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bar
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okay what do we
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got P
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bolt okay let's take the pincher bolt
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off
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might be a 14 for the picture
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Bo let's
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see yep okay so left to
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loose push me
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luck that was easy I don't know why
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people always worry about it
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but no issues with
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that
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with the pin
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bolt
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okay
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this okay just take the pincher bolt off
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back here cuz I'm lazy
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all right looks pretty good pin your
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bolt is
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out time to do the sway
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bars one of my comment one of my viewers
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commented I sigh a lot some say I
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breathe
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heavy guys it's cuz I'm old and out of
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shape
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let's
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see where is
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it this
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one there it is okay let's take it
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off left to
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loose here we
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go
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in Bolt is out now we're doing the sway
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bars it is moving so you do want like a
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a wrench just to hold it a lot of people
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use VI grips honestly I don't have any
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VI grips on me and this has worked out
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just fine
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so so for
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me I'm just going to use regular
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pliers let's see come on freaking pliers
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man okay so I'm just going to hold it
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right here while you un loosen it cuz
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you're going to need to better you can
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use some Vis grips I thought about
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getting some new sway bars
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but these are
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fine
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almost
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out I've had these tools
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forever crescent wrench I think I
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ordered these off Amazon and you know
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they've they've been worth the
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investment okay so that's one down one
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more to go down here
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need to clean up that one
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there that
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was hearing watching some YouTube videos
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it took two people to do but I don't
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think
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so okay so my foot's in the way but
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essentially I'm just going to
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see if I can
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do there we
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go
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almost
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Vis grips would probably be better but
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that's fine it's getting the job
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done nothing's wrong with a little bit
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of extra
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work there's that
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sway
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bars right here they're nice and loose
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already coming out I didn't even have to
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jack it up sometimes you have to jack up
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the
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uh this thing so that the sway
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bar can come
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out all right so now I just got to take
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off that one in the back which isn't too
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bad what I usually do is uh God it's
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hard to video
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this
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um let's
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see let's see what's the size there I
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think that's about
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that hope that'll fit I was thinking
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about putting a wobbly in there but
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might not have to I might have done a
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wobbly on the other
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side
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okay
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left and then you're going to need a
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wrench to hold
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that see how it's
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moving so all I
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do keep it simple
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guys nothing
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fancy just going to get a crescent
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wrench hold
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it I'm just going to do this until it
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comes
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out
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there it goes
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almost
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so it's completely loose but here's the
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trick you don't want to take the bolt
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out until you knock the knuckle out okay
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cuz you kind of want this to stabilize
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it while you knock and Hammer the hell
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out of this bottom piece right here so
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leave that in for a second now we got to
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knock this out okay so I got some
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wood I put some wood in there I'm going
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to first thing I'm going to do first
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guys let's see if you can see that yep
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there it is right there do that first
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put a little uh chisel in there and
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Hammer the hell out of
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it see if you can get that to pop open a
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little bit more it'll make your life
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easier I'm going to put down my
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phone all right so here's the part
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that's the pain in the ass let's see if
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I can get my phone
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up
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okay
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okay see if I can make this
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work
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man it's going to be hard to
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see
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get this piece of
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wood put this wood up over here get the
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hammer the hell out of
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it if you can pop this
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out the big ass
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Hammer see if you can see
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that
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Jesus guys
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let's
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see hopefully you can see
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that maybe it's starting to
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move
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keep hammering the out of
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it
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looks like it's coming
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out
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almost got to pound the out of
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[Music]
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this that's the fun part maybe I should
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use a pickle fork like uh What uh
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Stevie Kilmer did what's his name Scotty
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Kilmer he's the pickle fork I don't have
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a pickle
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fork
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son of a
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is it moving
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yeah it's moving
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son of a g let's move
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it so it's
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moving I'm going to keep
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going
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almost
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right
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come
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oh
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me
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wants to come
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out it's the part I hate the mil right
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here guys this
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son of a
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this is as
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close to a pickle fork I'm going to
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get
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okay well it wants to come out
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to P the out of
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[Music]
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[Music]
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it
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fucker's
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moving a little bit moving a little
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bit
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oh son of a came
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out
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well hope you guys got that but yep
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finally came out son of a
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dirty as
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okay see if I can get this one
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out okay here we go guys the Moment of
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Truth all right should just fall
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out
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ham she goes just like
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that it's actually not that bad this
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one's still
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good I'm going to replace it
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anyways cuz I have the
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parts
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yeah
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so going
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to
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there's the
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bolt hammers
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hamers
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right
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there we
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go
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okay
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sweep
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bar
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right
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okay
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no
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snap just like that
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guys
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hi used a jack popped it in you heard it
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pop make sure you put that one in first
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before you put that
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in then I put the sway bars in shut up
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sir
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then I installed the sway bars
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next okay searching for sway bars next
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on theore oh my god really
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Siri love the hate relationship with
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her go she's a
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pain okay
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so this control arm probably it wasn't
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damaged yet I'm not sure how long it
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would have gone
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for
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but I feel good when I changed it out
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hopefully I get at least another 100,000
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miles out of
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these I know to go
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bad freaking gamble every goddamn time I
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thought about getting the mogs but I
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went with
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OEM it cost about 300 and 30 bucks each
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I asked for 10% discount and they gave
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it to me from the
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stealership
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okay now I can just let this
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down let that down tighten all the
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bolts tighten that all
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up
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I better put this back up just in
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case that's what I figured shut
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up just in
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case
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no I mean yes I've got the jack stands
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but you never know
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man happens at least I got the jack
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stand and I got the
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Jack
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okay all right let's do
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this I'm almost done with this
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Subaru goddamn
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hate
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them my wife loves them I hate
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them because I have to fix
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them if it was me if I can just get a
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Toyota
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man way less work Toyota's number one
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quality for a
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reason a lot less
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oh
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sorry you guys have to hear me
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rant
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but kind of sick of that sick of this
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Subaru falling apart
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they need to do a better job especially
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coming from a Japanese company
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man where did all the
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goddamn quality
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go you know it's like
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stupid stupid as hell
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come
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on oh man
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guys I hate doing this by hand I wish I
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had some nice power
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tools
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nope old school tools
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man nice and slow
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slow and steady I
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guess slow and is more like
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it this is a 17 maybe we've had a
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17 here 17 this is what I want
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left to loose right to
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tight there we go just what I was
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talking
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about okay now we're in
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business
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me just tighten this
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up sway bar is almost
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done I'm not sure if you guys can just
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see my beautiful face or if you
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guys can actually see the work I'm
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doing
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there we
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go let's see if I can get
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it get
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it
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show
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that okay so I'm going to put the sway
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bars in I'm going to tighten that
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tighten that pretty much done can
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tighten that over there in the back put
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that back on with that put that on first
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and then the
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plastic make sure I get the pinch bolt
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in we're all set guys that's about it
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it's a wrap