Was B3 Steering, Now Monkey Lads Return...

[Bob Gregory]

Driving the car home from work last nite, some pretty
serious thumping and banging on the right front had
started, suggesting something was getting loose. 
After checking all recently replaced parts, found that
the right ball joint nuts/bolts had gotten way loose,
and the joint was now able to slide back and forth
within the range of the adjustment slots in the ball
joint mounting plate! When I called the fine fellow at
my local STS shop where I had the alignment done on
Friday, his first response was that I was the guy who
had just done all that suspension work, so.....  After
I returned from orbit following that line, the next
one was they didn't loosen the ball joint bolts, "I
know, cuz I was watchin' them do it".  I asked him how
they adjusted the camber?  Him say  "if they didn't
have to adjust camber, they wouldn't have had to
loosen them"!  I reminded him that I had just
eyeballed the camber and the toe before I drove the
car to them (1.5 mi) and the chances I got any of
those adjustments right were zero, zip, squa-tah.  At
that point he gave up and gave me to the manager. I
demanded a realignment at no cost, and he readily
agreed.

Sheesh.



> On 5/14/07, Bob Gregory <rggpa1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Just completed front suspension replacement
> (control arms, ball joints, TREs, strut inserts -
> Sachs Advantage, strut mounts - Boge w/Mount
> Savers).  Got car aligned - tracks straight, no
> wobble, almost noiseless, great.  But... now there
> is an odd (variable?) amount of steering play at the
> center point.  When turning left after right (and
> vice versa) there are a few degrees of turn in the
> wheel where nothing happens.  At times it's real
> subtle, other times it's pretty dramatic, and
> seemingly not speed related.......



       
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