Words of Wisdom needed (front end parts goin in)

[The Rev]

I just got caught in a hailstorm UGH! Golfball -> pool ball sized too. No damage to the mark though LUCKILY. I took the dremel to the back bolt on the drivers side UCA, cutting the hole in the fender liner bigger. I'll probably need to pick up a u-joint to finish the job. My swaybar end links looked to be the biggest problem though, when I took the drivers side out the lower ball joint on it was completely loose, almost falling apart. the upper was seized and wouldn't move at all. I didn't get to install anything yet, the only progress I've made is taking out the drivers side swaybar end link. Once I pickup a ujoint I'll be fine for the uppers I'm hoping. Can anyone confirm the size of the bolts on the lca?

I'm probably done for the day, unless the sun dries up the horrible hailstorm remnants.

Oh and the parts look to be trw, so someone must've taken care of it at one point

 

[unity]

TRW was OEM for many front end parts. The lowers for sure.

 

[warthog5]

The uppers also.

Buy a Moog UCA. Open the box and physically look at the part and it will have TRW embossed in it.

 

[unity]

Ya, out of all the "MOOG" parts I bought, I think only the sway bar end links had the MOOG name.

 

[The Rev]

Same here, just the rubber boots on the end links say moog, oh well I could care less. Its dry, I may take a crack at it again tonight. The new links are shaped differently too. Maybe a performance flaw in the old ones

 

[The Rev]

Yeah I took the dremel to it. I ended up getting the broken studs out and replaced, and the bolts on the drivers side uca out, but I didn't break off the flags on the fender side bolts so I'll figure that out tomorrow, because now they're behind the air strut.

And the bolts on the lca aren't 23mm, oh well I've made too many trips to the stores today and I'm done for the day. She's outta commission until this is done!

 

[The Rev]

I found out there was a harbor freight in RI, and man that place is awesome. I picked up a pretty nice longhandled set of wrenches for like 15 bucks. It turned out it was a 21 mm, and everything went painfree. I took off the airstrut, uca changed out in 2 minutes flat. Torched up the lca bolts, they popped right off, putting in the new lca, grabbed the wrong one, ok thats fine, go get the other, its the wrong side AGAIN!

They shipped me 2 of the passengers side, d'oh! It was my lower ball joint that was making all of the noise, completely ruined. Still out of commission until further notice, turns out that my mechanic actually did replace the strut rod bushings last year because they aren't in bad shape at all. They're still coming out though.