[200q20v] Warped UFO's - not anymore!

[Phil Rose]

At 11:08 AM -0800 2/1/01, Bernie Benz wrote:
>You lost the thread.  We were talking ball joints, not sway bar bushings.

No, in my earlier question I surmised that sway bar removal might be 
needed in order to unload the C/A for checking the ball joint. No one 
commented about that.




>  > From: Phil & Judy Rose <pjrose at frontiernet.net>
>>  Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:28:52 -0500
>>  To: Bernie Benz <b.m.benz at prodigy.net>
>>  Cc: 200q20V mailing list <200q20v at audifans.com>
>>  Subject: Re: [200q20v] Warped UFO's - not anymore!
>>
>>  So the sway bar (and its bushing) are sufficiently compliant that one
>>  should be able to feel joint movement using a prybar against the C/A
>>  --if the balljoint is loose?
>>
>>  At 12:56 AM -0800 2/1/01, Bernie Benz wrote:
>>>  Scott's ball joint check is probably the best, but inasmuch as the ball
>>>  joint is unloaded when the wheel is off the ground on a chassis jack, one
>>>  can get in there with a pry bar and check for loosness without disassembly.
>>>
>>>  Bernie
>>>
>>>>  From: Phil Rose <pjrose at frontiernet.net>
>>>>  Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:59:12 -0500
>>>>  To: Bernie Benz <b.m.benz at prodigy.net>
>>>>  Cc: <QSHIPQ at aol.com>, 200q20V mailing list <200q20v at audifans.com>
>>>>  Subject: Re: [200q20v] Warped UFO's - not anymore!
>>>>
>>>>  At 4:37 PM -0500 1/31/01, Bernie Benz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>  I can share that the
>>>>>>  outer ball joints on Paul's car had about .250 play in them, in fact the
>>>>>>  inner bushings weren't really all that bad.  The play in the outer ball
>>>>>>  joints is what I believe gave the symptoms of warped rotors,
>>>>>>  when indeed it
>>>>>>  was the whole wheel and tire wobbling during braking.
>>>>>  This rings true with my old 5KTQ that my son has.  At 260K it is slowly
>>>>>  getting "loose" in the front end, but no brake symptoms.  Most 
>>>>>likely those
>>>>>  ball joints, as everything else looks to be in good shape, SB bushings
>>>>>  having been replaced.
>>>>
>>>>  So--what's the best/easiest way to check for excessive balljoint
>>>>  play--assuming there's been no very obvious sounds or handling symptoms? I
>>>>  assume that to check will require the SB-end would have to be removed--and
>>>>  also that the balljoint is not replaceable without a complete C/A?
>>>>
>>>>  Phil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Phil Rose
>>>>  Rochester, NY
>>>>  mailto:pjrose at frontiernet.net
>>>>
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