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Disappearing ball joint bolts......
Posted by DanaH [Email] (more from DanaH) on Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:07:36
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So I was hearing crunch-clunk noises in left front suspension. So when I got it on my friends lift to drain coolant for replacing water pump we looked at left ball joint area and found the two outer of the three ball joint bolts were missing!...only the center bolt was still there. So I had a couple of extra ball joint bolts and nuts (with self locking plastic) and installed those and torqued them to spec. Two weeks later I again was getting noises in suspension. Drove over to my buds at Swedish Motors in boston and low and behold the same two bolts were again missing!! Any theories out there why this would occur?
My theory, though kind of a WAG, is that when using the car for however long the 1st time these bolts were missing the A-arm and plate the ball joint bolts to got misaligned and now is overpowering any bolt put in those two positions. I gotta keep an eye on those bolts!
Do y'all use loctite on those three bolts?
DanaH
97 9000CS
150k miles
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Posts in this Thread:
- Disappearing ball joint bolts......, DanaH, Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:07:36 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Disappearing ball joint bolts......, Shawsheen, Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:55:45
- odd indeed..., dref, Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:44:13
- Re: Disappearing ball joint bolts......, TML , Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:25:32
- Re: Disappearing ball joint bolts......, Simon S, Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:57:40
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