[s-cars] RE: S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 8, Issue 10

[Paul Heneghan]

Hello Igor and Mike,

I'm curious - what was Step #1 ?

I've got bad tyre wear and wandering steering on the front of one of mine
and am about to treat it to new ARB bushes (inner and outer), control arms
and outer CV boots.  I think the original shocks are OK (85k miles), so I
might do those when I get to 100k.

What is the perceived wisdom on subframe mounting bushes?  Do them if you've
done everything else and there is still slop?  Is it a five-spanner job
(Haynes manual maximum rating of difficulty)?

Paul
Two S6s - one with sloppy front end, the other with leaking auxiliary water
pump

> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:06:31 -0400
> From: Igor Kessel <kbattpo at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: Subject: [s-cars] Control arm/Ball joint
>
> Mike,
> I have just done this on my car. A few comments below.
>
> > 1) Undo the sway bar mounts under the engine bay. This
> > need to be done with the car on its wheels, on ramps.
> Didn't have to do those.
>
> > 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.
> This was Step #3 for me.
>
> > 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.
> This was Step #2 for me.
> <snip>
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