Every Have Things Snowball?

[67Satty]

Ever Have Things Snowball?

Stupid question I know. So I picked up a pair of aluminum 15X8 wheels for cheap at the Fall Fling swap meet. I figured this would be a good upgrade from my cop rims - save rotating weight and get a better footprint from my 9 inch slicks to boot.

So the first thing is that I needed to roll my quarter panel lips in to make room. The 8" width doesn't pull the sidewalls in as much as the 7" inch rims did. That part actually went easier than I thought it would. I do a test fit and everything is cool. Next, I can't find any lug nuts that will work with these wheels and the left hand-threaded studs I still have on just one corner of the car. OK, I may as well put some longer studs on there for both sides while I am changing over to right hand thread studs. Hmmmm, this one axle bearing looks kind of rusty and crusty. May as well put new axles bearings on while the axles are out. I'm sure the axle bearings might give me years more of trouble-free service but they are pushing 47 years old after all.

What are your stories of things snowballing when you go to do one little thing?

 

[300]

Ya. When I get another project

 

[Tempest 455]

Every day!

 

[Dako]

There are the various scientific laws: Boyles Law; Newton's Laws (He has three!); Bernoulli's law; etc.

Then there is the Hot Rodders Law: For every modification, there will be a minimum of three other modifications to make the 1st modification work.

 

[Dennis H]

No. Never. Ever.

 

[HT413]

Heck, this whole hobby is a massive snowball racing down a hill lol.

I've planning and budgeting for a motor for the past 6 months and havent started it because the whole thing has been snowballing from the beginning. Why machine my stock stroke crank when for a few hundred bucks more i can stroke it? And you know the rest of that story...

 

[coronet340]

YEP!
Trying to get my car out of storage and into my garage to start working on it. No big deal. Oh wait, I need tools. Oh and jack stands. Engine hoist you say? Yea need one of those too. As well as a trailer to get it here and a sander, electric drill and a million other things. Lol