On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Tom Jennings wrote: ugh, replying to my own mail... I want to point out also, if you 'pick at' your front end, you'll be working on it the entire time you own it! If you shotgun all the bad crap in one weekend, you can drive it for the next 100K miles without working on the damned thing, your tires will last, etc. Been there, done that. Your choice!