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Old 10-05-2012, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by torsionbar View Post
no way your ball joints are original 223k miles. if ball joints are that old, then control arm bushings are that old too, and your steering wheel will have a severe death shimmy on the freeway. if you pull the arms to replace them or do bushings, it's a given that you'd replace ball joints at the same time.
Well, I did the LCAs, but not the UCAs. The ball joints were still servicable on the UCAa and I was on day 10 of the full suspension rebuild. Would have taken me another day and more tools to do the UCAs at that time.
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