[V6-12v] Update: How bad is it?? Front diff. problems on '95 90Qw/new struts

[Clive Young]

I am not sure if we are talking about the same thing but the strut tower
bolts and nuts are not used in the allignments as far as I know. In fact I
had the whole strut towers out on my car to replace the inserts and my
allignment afterwards was bang on.
    The allignment nuts fasten the ball joint plate to the control arm and
the camber is adjusted this way. Maybe your guy did not realize this , undid
the wrong nuts and after he realized his mistake forgot to fasten them back
up ?

Clive


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Lenorovitz" <jlenorovitz at yahoo.com>
To: "Richard Tanimura" <rictan302 at yahoo.com>; <conner at cfm.Ohio-State.edu>;
<quattro at audifans.com>; <v6-12v at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:52 AM
Subject: [V6-12v] Update: How bad is it?? Front diff. problems on '95
90Qw/new struts


> Thanks for the responses on this one.  After getting a chance to look in
the
> daylight with the wheel removed, I realized that the lateral movement was
caused by
> looseness of the nuts that secure the ball joint plate to the bottom of
the strut
> tower.  A great relief for me as I think everything else is OK.
>
> Now to go down and have it out with the idiots at the alignment place.  I
never
> touched those nuts, but I'm assuming they must have.  That's how the
camber would be
> adjusted, correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
>
> --- Richard Tanimura <rictan302 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Joel,
> >
> > Do keep me in the loop about the half shafts. Hope it
> > won't be one of those fixes where you wallet goes into
> > convulsions :-)
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > --- Joel Lenorovitz <jlenorovitz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey Richard,
> > >
> > > It was the shock insert I changed, so I probably
> > > didn't have the terminology right
> > > there.  Bilstein does indeed make a replacement unit
> > > for all 4 wheels.  Through
> > > Blaufergnugen they are more expensive than the Boge
> > > for the fronts (~$119 Bilstein
> > > vs. ~$75 Boge), but on the rear the ridiculous Boge
> > > pricing cancels it out (~$119
> > > Bilstein vs. $199 Boge).  That's per each insert, so
> > > for less money overall, might
> > > as well have Bilsteins all around.
> > >
> > > I'll keep you posted if I find anything out about
> > > the repair work,
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > --- Richard Tanimura <rictan302 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- Joel Lenorovitz <jlenorovitz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > Greetings,
> > > > >
> > > > > I recently replaced the OE front struts in my
> > > '95
> > > > > 90Q with Bilsteins (quite a
> > > > > difference!), which seemed to go fairly well
> > > once I
> > > > > got all the right tools on hand.
> > > >
> > > > Did you change the whole strut or just the shock
> > > > inserts in the strut? I am not being picky, just
> > > > curious. If Bilstein makes struts for our car, I
> > > could
> > > > be interested in some.
> > > >
> > > > >  I tried to take care and support the A-arm by
> > > the
> > > > > ball joint while the strut tower
> > > > > was out, but on one side it did manage to slip
> > > at
> > > > > one point and go to its extreme
> > > > > travel.  What stopped it was the half-shaft
> > > coming
> > > > > from the front differential I now
> > > > > I fear I may have some problems there.
> > > > >
> > > > > The CV joint at the wheel and everything that's
> > > > > physically attached to the strut
> > > > > tower seem to be tight and in decent shape, but
> > > I
> > > > > get some lateral play (~ 1 1/2
> > > > > inches) in the whole assembly when the car is
> > > jacked
> > > > > off the ground.
> > > >
> > > > 1.5" sounds like a lot.
> > > >
> > > > I just changed to new springs and had my struts
> > > off.
> > > > Now you got me concerned.
> > > >
> > > > Rich
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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