[s-cars] Follow up...Re: How many AAA ramp trucks does it take...

[Peter Schulz]

Followup to the fiasco last month....

Summary, I'm out of town, the Mrs calls and says that passenger front 
wheel is stuffed in the wheel well.

Fast forward - strut has slipped out of the ball joint on lower 
control arm, pinch bolt is still in place, outer CV joint has pulled 
off the axle and is only held in place by the boot.

I am able to remove the wheel and pinch bolt (which is missing a good 
number of threads AND has an allen head.
The balljoint boot is torn, but CV boot is intact.

Mike Sylvester helped me ( ok HE did most of the work), get the CV 
joint back on the axle, and we together are able to get the the axle 
back into the wheel housing and  strut re attached to the ball joint...

And Mike notices that the pinch slot on the strut/wheel housing has 
been forced apart at some point in time (the opening is V shaped, so 
evidently it was pried apart.  We have some difficulty in getting a 
new pinch bolt inserted for this reason (opening should be more || shaped)

At this point we believe that the reason the accident occured was 
because of the pinch slot being forced open, and then trying to close 
it by overtightening the pinch bolt with an impact wrench...

At this time the car is driveable, but I plan on replacing the lower 
control arm with a new one (due to the torn ball joint boot), using a 
vice to close the gap on the pinch slot, etc...but since the car has 
230 k miles, and I have a spare subframe, I'm going to go all out 
with new subframe bushings, etc, and do this right...(especially 
since its the wife's DD, and she is driving mine the last month)

So head the warning about NOT opening the pinch slot...and if you are 
getting a mystery CLUNK from the front end when in a turn at low 
speed, check the gap on the pinch slot...

HTH

-Peter






> > > Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:41:00 -0400
> > > From: Peter Schulz <pcschulz at comcast.net>
> > > Subject: [s-cars] How many AAA ramp trucks does it take...
> > > To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> > > Message-ID: <20071003014250.C965918000061 at audifans.com>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> > >
> > > To tow my wife's S6 wagon with a broken tie rod????
> > >
>
>-Peter Schulz
>Chelmsford Ma, USA
>http://www.naaclub.org/
>
>1995.5 S6 Avant Emerald/Ecru
>1995.5 S6 Avant Silver/Platinum
>1991 200 20v Q Avant Titan Grey (for sale)
>1991 90 20v Q Red
>1991 CQ silver  (eS2 recipient)
>
>_______________________________________________
>S-CAR-List mailing list
>S-CAR-List at audifans.com
>http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list

-Peter Schulz
Chelmsford Ma, USA
http://www.naaclub.org/

1995.5 S6 Avant Emerald/Ecru
1995.5 S6 Avant Silver/Platinum
1991 200 20v Q Avant Titan Grey (for sale)
1991 90 20v Q Red
1991 CQ silver  (eS2 recipient)