Lowering kit suggestions?

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Nice! Good luck dude. We wanna see progress pics on that for sure!๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป
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Yeah letโ€™s see if I can get them open first they are sealed tight!
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You gotta heat em up slowly and for a long time. Make a box get 3 or 4 heat guns blowing in it for a while and melt the sealant

Or a blow lamp and work your way around removing it as you go. Itโ€™s not easy either way ๐Ÿ‘Ž๐Ÿป
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lord-dudester wrote:You gotta heat em up slowly and for a long time. Make a box get 3 or 4 heat guns blowing in it for a while and melt the sealant

Or a blow lamp and work your way around removing it as you go. Itโ€™s not easy either way Image
Yeah Iโ€™ve made my temporary oven the other day but I realised that itโ€™s not butyl rubber itโ€™s permaseal, Iโ€™m going to make my own hook tool to cut around the suff.
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Good luck...... these are crazy to open. Nearly 2 days using all sorts of tools.


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Caddyluv wrote: โ†‘Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:01 pm Good luck...... these are crazy to open. Nearly 2 days using all sorts of tools.


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If all else fails I will cut the lip with my dremel and cut the rest of the rubber out. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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That sounds like a good idea. See it it will route it out somehow ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป
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Or do what I did...

Pay someone else to do it ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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Itโ€™s getting that way trust me
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Iโ€™ve heard itโ€™s a nightmare.

The bad news is. The guy that did mine has vowed never to do them again ๐Ÿ‘Ž๐Ÿป
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That why I said good luck because I know that guy plus with another forum member it took us 2 days.


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lord-dudester wrote: โ†‘Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:40 pm Iโ€™ve heard itโ€™s a nightmare.

The bad news is. The guy that did mine has vowed never to do them again ๐Ÿ‘Ž๐Ÿป
Haha I understand why Iโ€™ve started mine yesterday Iโ€™m getting the hang of it though, heat gun and pry.
Doing some tonight too.
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Caddyluv wrote: โ†‘Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:41 pm That why I said good luck because I know that guy plus with another forum member it took us 2 days. Image


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Ok challenge accepted!! ๐Ÿ˜‚
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I hope your getting some pictures for us!!๐Ÿ˜€
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Image
1/3 of the way through
Made a hook tool by dremeling a teaspoon.
not too hard Image

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