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Old 04-29-2009, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by ohiomike View Post
It's much cheaper and easier to buy a rear trailing arm in a 126 model and replace the whole arm leaving the bearing in the replacement unit. It takes a lot of work and special tool to replace these bearings that almost never go bad. Dont forget to get a 4 wheel alignment done afterwards.
Agreed. I had the bearing go out on my 115. did some research on how to do it, priced the parts, and assuming I could get the tools I was looking at waiting a week for the parts, and then having to do the repair, which seems to be a royal bit
I went to the wrecking yard and bought a "control arm" and swapped it out.



but I'm a broke 20 something. If I had the option I think I would have spent the $300 to not have to do it myself. swapping the arm was a bear. $300 is a deal.
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