[s-cars] Replacing my front bearings, do I need an alignment after?

[Mike Sylvester]

I reuse them all the time and have never had any issue.  That is quite a
large bolt, I can see that you can put enough torque on it to stretch and
not damage the bearing.
Even if it did stretch, so what?

I'd like to know what it is that you are removing when you are doing a wheel
bearing, because when I remove a strut tower I don't touch anything that has
any affect on the alignment.
The camber is adjusted by the slotted holes on the top strut mount.  That
does not get removed in this job.

Mike Sylvester

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Kessel" <kbattpo at verizon.net>
To: "Mike Sylvester" <msylvester at verizon.net>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Replacing my front bearings, do I need an alignment
after?


> Mike Sylvester wrote:
> > You don't need the kit unless you damaged the old bolt.
>
> Sorry, Mike. Yes you do. These bolts are not reusable. Next time around
> align the new one with the old one at one end and observe that the
> cumulative error at the opposite need will be about half the thread
> pitch. These bolts stretch just like the head bolts.
>
> > You also don't need an alignment.  Removing and reinstalling the strut
housing will not make any changes to the alignment.
>
> Sorry again, Mike. Once you remove the strut housing you will mess up
> the Camber.
> However removing and reinstalling the strut housing is not needed at all
> if you use the special bearing tool as I did in January courtesy of our
> fellow lister and an all around great guy Mark Pollan.
>
> -- 
> Igor Kessel
> two turbo quattros in the stable,
> the third one is in the works
>