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

[Mike Platt]

Hi Jr,
I just used the shiny silver stuff that sticks to
everything. Got it at Auto-no-zone. I cleaned out the
ball joint hole in the strut real good and applied
anti seize in the hole and on the outside of the
joint.

Don't want to start and anti seize debate here but,
since I live in a heavy salt area. Things rust up very
nicely. I use it quite liberally under the car. The
anti seize helped me get that joint apart later.

Mike
--- JR <urs4 at magnaspeed.net> wrote:
> 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!!!
> >
> 



	
		
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