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

[JR]

What anti seize do you guys use for this R&R?

JR


Igor Kessel wrote:

> Mike,
> I have just done this on my car. A few comments below.
>
>
> Mike Platt wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
> The sleeves came out easily with a help of a hook and were reused. The 
> key is to do the Steps 2,3 the way I did, AND twist the control arm 
> parallel to the ground. This way you relive the torsional stress on 
> the big bushing and the sleeve.
>
>> 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.
>
> Mine came with the new control arms for $89/ea side.
>
>> 10) Put on inner sway bar mounts. Pry bar needed here.
>
> No need to do these if you follow my sequence.
>
>> 11) tighten everything back to spec.
>
> On the ground!!!
>