by "Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
Published 06/11/2017 at 18:30
by "Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
Published 06/11/2017 at 18:30
No Tags
STARS: 1
Mrs. Shoe Pilot’s Honda wagon is up on the healing bench (lift) getting a rear suspension refresh. The car is 20 years old and all the rubber bits in the back are getting replaced with new ones. For any particular trailing/control arm, the replaceable parts might be $20 and a whole new arm with the bushings/ball joint already in it is $25, so I took the lazy way out and paid the extra couple bucks for all new control arms. The downside is that I don’t have an excuse to go buy a press now.
Same story on the shocks. $85 bucks gets you the strut cartridge and $92 gets you a ready to install assembly with a new spring and all the other stuff.
"My citroen won't start" (lucasboechat)
06/11/2017 at 18:43, STARS: 0
25 bucks for a new control arm?
"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
06/11/2017 at 19:05, STARS: 1
Depends on the control arm but yeah, about that. Each side has 1x upper and 2x lower control arms plus a trailing arm and an anti-roll bar link.
A complete (new bushings and ball joints already installed) set of bits was $300, including shipping.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
06/11/2017 at 22:46, STARS: 0
Totally worth the extra few bucks. You’ll find another excuse to buy a press sooner or later.