Swapping Out The Control Arms, What to Watch Out For? |
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Swapping Out The Control Arms, What to Watch Out For? |
Mblizzard |
May 15 2015, 05:14 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,033 Joined: 28-January 13 From: Knoxville Tn Member No.: 15,438 Region Association: South East States |
Seems pretty simple. Going to read through the Haynes Manual of course. But thought I would ask if anyone has tips? Any special tools? Got new set built up with new bushings, ball joints, new nuts, and turbo tie rods.
Figured I would leave the shocks in place, separate at ball joint, and drop out. Will measure and set the tie rods to get close but figure I would pull the rack to clean up everything. Will get some ride height measurement and such. Seems too easy! |
r_towle |
May 17 2015, 08:53 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,577 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States |
Large pipe wrench, done
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john77 |
May 18 2015, 05:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 621 Joined: 21-February 14 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 17,027 Region Association: Southern California |
Large pipe wrench, done This is good timing, I'm in the process of pulling my control arms to fit new bushings and wanted to get them powdercoated at the same time so I'm gonna need to remove the ball joints. In all-seriousness, how do you measure torque with a large pipe wrench? I have one, and am considering that route, but with a suspension component that needs so much torque I'm not sure if I trust my arms to calculate correctly so it doesn't unscrew as I'm flying down the freeway (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif). |
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