Ok, this is how much of a bonehead I am. :roll:
My friend Seth and I are installing new control arms w/ new ball joints and CAB's onto my wife's 89 325. All is going well. We get the new CAB's nice and soapy, and smack them good and hard onto the new control arms. My, how pretty they look, and how easily we got them on. We were rather impressed with ourselves.
This joy would be short lived.
We get the inner ball joint of the passenger side bolted back into the subframe, and Seth goes to begin to mount the CAB bracket back to the frame. A few seconds later, Seth says to me, "Josh? I hate to say this..."
These are words the enthusiast never wants to hear while doing a job on a car. I scooted over to the other side of the car, and noticed our predicament. We mounted the CAB's to the control arms upside down. Not only are they upside down, they're on the wrong arms. The are upside down and on completely the wrong arms. Well, needless to say, once you mount CAB's the control arms, they aren't coming back off. We tried.
We had to destroy a perfectly good, brand new set of CAB's to gte them off of the arms. We then had to reinstall the old control arms, with severely worn and clunking ball joints, and near-wasted CAB's back onto the car, while I order another set and wait until next week, so we can take it all apart and do it again.
At least we'll know what we're doing this time.
My friend Seth and I are installing new control arms w/ new ball joints and CAB's onto my wife's 89 325. All is going well. We get the new CAB's nice and soapy, and smack them good and hard onto the new control arms. My, how pretty they look, and how easily we got them on. We were rather impressed with ourselves.
This joy would be short lived.
We get the inner ball joint of the passenger side bolted back into the subframe, and Seth goes to begin to mount the CAB bracket back to the frame. A few seconds later, Seth says to me, "Josh? I hate to say this..."
These are words the enthusiast never wants to hear while doing a job on a car. I scooted over to the other side of the car, and noticed our predicament. We mounted the CAB's to the control arms upside down. Not only are they upside down, they're on the wrong arms. The are upside down and on completely the wrong arms. Well, needless to say, once you mount CAB's the control arms, they aren't coming back off. We tried.
We had to destroy a perfectly good, brand new set of CAB's to gte them off of the arms. We then had to reinstall the old control arms, with severely worn and clunking ball joints, and near-wasted CAB's back onto the car, while I order another set and wait until next week, so we can take it all apart and do it again.
At least we'll know what we're doing this time.
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