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A funny bump,tie rods and ball joints - which tool kit? Posted by John Fitzgerald [Email] (#77) [Profile/Gallery] (more from John Fitzgerald) on Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:09:29 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Curious which tools are the best for tie rod and ball joint replacement -- Eastwood has a combo kit, supposedly designed not to damage components as much as the old 'pickle forks', such that you might be able to reassemble if the components weren't bad .
Anyway, this is because I'm feeling a noticable 'bump' in the front end, as I back out of the garage down a 1" drop from concrete to driveway, noticing a bit of a lurch in the car wash as the left front wheel drives into the 'trap', and a bit of an extra bump/twitch when hitting a pothole with the same left front tire. Also sometimes a noticable small jerk when creeping forward at low speed and then stopping , as though something gave a little before the stop. Tried checking for excess play when the car was jacked up, bleeding the brakes last week, but everything felt solid, both in the 3-9 plane and in the 6-12 plane.
Thanks.
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_______________________________________ John Burlington, Wisc '73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK '80 99 bought new, sold after 20 years/192,000mi '86 9kT picked up at Trollhatten, sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi '87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000 mi '94 CSE given to my son after 8 years @ 245k; he sold it at 254k mi '95 Aero 146,xxx mi sold '98 CSE 248,xxx mi gave it away '97 Aero 317,xxx mi my daughter’s school car … gave away [we put 300k mi on it] still driving: '97 CSE 170xxx mi 'project car' for myself and my daughters to drive '07 9-3 2.0T 240xxx '08 9-5 191xxx mi my wife's daily driver and a couple of 'non-Saabs': '01 Suburban 201,xxx mi '03 BMW 330 Cic 84,xxx mi '14 Mercedes E350 103,xxx mi
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