Upper castle nut gone!!!
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Upper castle nut gone!!!
After driving the Ex this morning to take the kiddos to school I noticed it was slightly pulling to the right. Decided to jack it up to check for slack since Ive had the clunking noise and I had ALOT of upper play back and forth so removed the wheel and the castle nut and most the threaded stem part were gone, but ball joint looks to be seated still so wonder if during the wreck a few months back that it might have cracked it but the initial line up we had didnt catch it and then driving it almost daily stressed it enough to break on off. Anyway looks like I get to take the day off to replace the upper joint, thinking maybe should replace lower also but it looks to be in good shape.
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I wouldn't touch the lower one.
I had my lower joints done a while back and they left 2 of the 4 bolts out of the knuckle to hub (4wd) which I didn't see until a year later plus they wanted $25 more for replacing some 50 cent clips in the pads and then didn't give me a receipt..............didn't go for any of it and too late on the bolts to say anything since they were 1000 miles away.
I had my lower joints done a while back and they left 2 of the 4 bolts out of the knuckle to hub (4wd) which I didn't see until a year later plus they wanted $25 more for replacing some 50 cent clips in the pads and then didn't give me a receipt..............didn't go for any of it and too late on the bolts to say anything since they were 1000 miles away.
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Did not know which degree bushing to get so went with the 1 degree, got it set in and clamped down, Ex is tracking straight again with no front end clunk. Ill have to take it in to get the alignment checked again since I know I dont have it spot on and may have to replace the bushing with a different one but atleast we are now safe again.
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While I see Brent's point I don't agree. Balljoints aren't uncommon parts to fail, and if I'm going through the effort and expense to replace the upper I would also do the lower. Remember that you have to replace some of the seals in the knuckle to do this job, so why go through the expense again when you could do both with just a few more minutes?
I would also recommend a quality name brand part rather than a parts store brand.
www.rockauto.com FTW!
I would also recommend a quality name brand part rather than a parts store brand.
www.rockauto.com FTW!
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While I see Brent's point I don't agree. Balljoints aren't uncommon parts to fail, and if I'm going through the effort and expense to replace the upper I would also do the lower. Remember that you have to replace some of the seals in the knuckle to do this job, so why go through the expense again when you could do both with just a few more minutes?
I would also recommend a quality name brand part rather than a parts store brand.
www.rockauto.com FTW!
I would also recommend a quality name brand part rather than a parts store brand.
www.rockauto.com FTW!
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All I done was bought and installed the missing camber bushing so no other work was done. There is a little play side to side and back and forth but not much, dont know how much is acceptable but Ive put around 50 miles on her since I installed the bushing and it is tracking straight as an arrow. I am going to do all the brakes one day next week but thats about the extent of the work I intend to do. I think I got lucky today without having to do anything to the ball joints.
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