[s-cars] RE: control arm R&R

[Theodore Chen]

--- Bill de Alva <billdealva at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Teddy,
>  
> One more thing...
>  
> If you have the car jacked up on one side only, the torsion bar will be
> exerting a very strong uplift on the control arm and therefore the ball
> joint.  I had both sides of the car supported on jack stands with the wheel
> hubs hanging.  Even then you may have to provide some lift to the hub in
> order to relieve any upward pressure from the torsion bar.

hmm, the passenger side wheel was still attached.  i removed the driver's
side wheel.  the thing is, wouldn't the weight of the passenger wheel
be trying to pull the driver's side control arm down?  that should have
made it easier to separate the spindle from the balljoint.

-teddy


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