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Bala · 02-10-2012, 02:30 AM

What a pain these bolts are. Maybe its just my car. Spent 6 hours removing the wishbone, sway bar, drop link bolts. Propane torch speeded up the things. Still broke the abs sensor ones and need to deal with it. Aso remaining are the bolts over the wheel bearing housing.

Both wheel bearings seemed fine when checked with the wheel on but when all was reoved there is some play. Recommend folks taking out the wheel assembly to check. "Better to do it while you are in there".

Bala · 02-10-2012, 02:35 AM

Heads up:

Vertex has just put out a kit that includes 4 wishbone, 2 front ontrol arms, 2 rear control arms and 2 track rods for 995. These will also have the upgrded polyurethane bushings. They even split the shipping with me. Of course these are the rebuilt ones. Lets see how they fare. Got to be better than the crap i took out.

thstone · 02-10-2012, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Bala

Both wheel bearings seemed fine when checked with the wheel on but when all was reoved there is some play. Recommend folks taking out the wheel assembly to check. "Better to do it while you are in there".

Agree. Same on my car. Checking the wheel bearings with the wheel/tire on the car there was no play whatsoever but I planned to replace them since I was doing the CV joints. After I had the bearings out, I could feel a slight ginding and some play which would have only got worse with time/miles. Definitely better to replace them as long you're in there.

shlim8 · 02-19-2012, 11:33 PM

Madmods,

just a quick update - it was one of the front control arms - the one with a fork like links and a ball joint. One side with excessive movement on the balljoint and the other slight.

They were TRW branded (or at least the box said TRW) and lasted 1 yr + and about 28k km.... (and a number of big potholes) hmmmm...

Changed the 2 front control arm and now the vibration through the steering wheel is almost gone and the handling is tidier as well. AND no more wooden floor board noises when going to uneven roads.

madmods · 02-20-2012, 01:18 AM

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