Weekend Project - Advice?

[KenC]

Update:

Everything is installed and the car and is lowered in the garage and awaiting it's allignment appointment tomorrow morning.

Another thank you to Jordan for pressing my bushings for me. The 150 mile round trip was well worth it.

I'll let you all know how it feels after I get the allignment tomorrow.

[KenC]

Update:

Everything is installed, including new strut mounts. The front end feels much more solid than it used to. The tie-rods made a big difference with the steering too, much more agile. The motor and tranny mounts made a big difference too; shifting is 10x more solid.

I'd recommend it to anyone with over 150K on their original parts.

[royalflush313]

Car is up on jack stands now waiting for the rotors to cool.

I just drove around for 2 hours trying to find the CA nuts. M14 x 1..5 is a really uncommon size I guess. And I hate how Napa stores are individually owned and none of them carry the same stuff. I went to two different Napas and the 3rd one finally had them - $2.13 each.

New control arms usually always come with them.

If you have air, everything you are doing can be easily popped off with an impact gun.

Yeah, I have an electric impact gun that I'm using.

I bought OE Lemfoerder CAs from eap4parts.com and they didn't come with any, but the tierods did :? .

I'm soaking the inner ball joint nuts in WD-40 right now. The driver's side one I can get to with a couple of long extensions, however, the passenger side one is partially covered by part of the motormounting system. Napa wanted $23 for a 22mm crow-foot so I'm going to figure something else out. The M10 is small so it shouldn't be a problem - lots of room to work.

Which electric impact gun are you using? Do you like it?

[KenC]

It's a Makita (sp?). Yeah, it works well. I wish it had an adjustable torque setting though. I think it's probably comparable to around 140psi on an airgun, which is too high for most bolts on the car.

[royalflush313]

cool.
I was thinking about picking one of these up eventually

http://www.thetoolwarehouse.net/shop/MAK-6934FDWDE.html

I just didnt know if it would be worth getting an electric one, as I don't know anyone who has them...

[KenC]

The one I have is a lot bigger than that and it has a cord. The electric ones are much more expensive than the air guns. If you have a compressor, it'd be worth it to pick up an air gun.

This is the one that I have:

http://www.makita.com/Tools_Item_View.asp?id=278

217 ft. lbs or torque... no wonder Jordan's air gun couldn't get my caliper bolts off....