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

[Mark Strangways]

Yep, been there and seen that...
I had a nasty clunk and it was very hard to track it. We did eventually find 
that the LS front was sloppy.
Not sloppy enough to fall out, but sloppy enough to be noticeable.

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Schulz" <pcschulz at comcast.net>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Follow up...Re: How many AAA ramp trucks does it 
take...


> 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
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>> > > 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
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>> > > To tow my wife's S6 wagon with a broken tie rod????
>> > >
>>
>>-Peter Schulz
>>Chelmsford Ma, USA
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> -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)
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