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

[Igor Kessel]

Paul Heneghan wrote:
> 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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Paul,
there is no Step #1 so to speak. I started with the Step #3 in Mike's write-up. 
Sorry for the confusion.

I didn't replace the subframe bushings in my car, hoping that the "walking" of the 
steering at the extreme wheel angles, and the chiselled off like wear of the 
inside front tread-to-sidewall edges would be gone after I replaced the control 
arms and bushings.

-- 
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros