Transverse link rear suspension type 44 '87 5000tq

[Arryn Milne]

Ben,
two things I can think of to watch, as the inner mount is a ball joint, I 
suspect trying to undo the nut will try and rotate the ball as well.  When 
I did mine I had the luxury of an air wrench, which worked fine.  The other 
thing is to make sure weight is on the suspension (fully) before tightening 
the outer bolt.  Otherwise the rubber mount will always be under tension 
and fail rather quickly, well, mine did :-(
Lastly, when I did mine, I found the link aftermarket for considerably 
less, somewhere in the $90-$110 range if I recall correctly.
Arryn


At 09:01 AM 5/9/01 -0400, Swann, Benjamin R.  (BSWANN) wrote:
>Haudi,
>
>I isolated some flakyness going on with the rear suspensionin '875kcstqw to
>the outer ball joint on the left rear transverse link.  I need to replace
>the balljoint.  This link goes from the rear cross-member to the top of the
>wheel hub, and has ball joints on both ends.
>
>Since the ball joint was $140 and the whole link assembly including both
>ball joints was $170 at the dealer, I'm going to replace the whole thing.
>
>Is this a pretty straightforward job - any BTDT?  I'm hoping it will take me
>only a few hours with no special tools, but don't want to get started on it
>if it requires any special tools.  It looks simple enough in the Bently -
>42.15-42.17.
>
>TIA
>
>Ben
>'875kcstqw