I usually spread the ears of the snap ring with a small screwdriver as I slide the joint back on and it just takes a few light taps. It should slide on easily without the snap ring. If the joint is on all the way the snap ring will rotate easily when you push it with a small screwdriver.

Small screwdriver through square hole in clamp and tip against hook to lever into place.

Every time I see a part number in a subject line it makes me smile. It just never fails.

Because the inevitable entropic slide to the S=Smax condition has been arrested for a brief moment I just love this level of detail. 95% of the time there is one and only one part number which will work in a particular application, and abscate puts them right there in the subject line along with a ...

I fed some words and numbers into google and hit the button. More stuff fell out than I expected.

https://www.ackits.com/santech-compress ... 3g-dks15bh

Zexel swash plate assemblies, but no prices:

http://johnica.com/new/zexel_ac_swash_plate_assy01.html

Shipping from Taiwan might be expensive/slow.

I live in Minnesota and I've used Akebono exclusively for almost 20 years. It gets cold here. My first set were part of an upgrade including stainless lines on a VW golf. That car had Konis and a wide set of Potenzas on it and I pushed it hard. I thought it was some kind of alien magic that I could ...

Last fall I was troubleshooting a stalling problem. I managed to rummage up a used scan tool for a pretty good price in the hope that reading some live data would provide some clues. I read data from the cheaper stuff first (which all looked good) before I turned to the MAF. The MAF reading would sp...

Well played, sir! I've only done one, that clunkless test drive might have been the most satisfying test drive of my life.

I'm just here
for the oversteer...