Subject: [s-cars] Control arm/Ball joint

[Mike Platt]

I have done this a few times and always a bit of a
hassle. The best success I have had is as follows.

1) Undo the sway bar mounts under the engine bay. This
need to be done with the car on its wheels, on ramps.
2) Remove wheel. Undo the ball joint nut and bolt and
extract from strut. Lots of PB blaster here. Clean up
hole and put anti seize in for the next time.

3) Loosen the sway bar nuts and pry the ball joint out
of strut and take the control arm/swaybar nuts off of
bar now.

4) Remove large bolt holding control arm to subframe.

5) You will need an extractor to remove the small
sleeve inside the bushing before you can take out arm.
Without this extractor, expect to take a lot of time
getting that sleeve out.

6) Remove arm. Clean up sleeve, coat with anti seize
and reassemble everything.

7) Install arm, sleeve and bolt. Leave bolt loose.

8) Pry down on arm and slide ball joint into strut.

9) put new bushings on control arm, sway bar mounting
point. They're cheap and cause tire wear problem when
they get old. I lubed them up with silicone grease
too.

10) Put on inner sway bar mounts. Pry bar needed here.

11) tighten everything back to spec.

Good luck. Should take you less than three hours.

Mike ( just did mine a few weeks ago) P
95.5 s6 avant




> Anyone have a method/process for replacing a control
arm/ball joint
> (front passenger's side)?  I've got the part.  Going
to attempt
> installation soon.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JR



	
		
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