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Originally Posted by roky
you would ask that! -- i was hoping to hide my stupidity -- i bought some off-brand, i'm sure china, should have bought what you used -- its taking me a long time to realize that i'm not poor anymore
re: the c-press, i bought it from hf about 7 yrs ago, so maybe its different, but it came with 3 sleeves, the smallest is almost perfect diameter, but too tall for the press to fit on and clear the knuckle, and so the cut(which was described by another member in an older post, which is where the pics came from) -- all i know is for about 60 for the press, plus 85 for the impact wrench, does a nice job(i was going to do it my old way, say a pipe wrench, couple of cheater pipes, and probably a torn rotater cuff) -- but definitely will go with the higher quality bjs next time
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Well the Chinese Ball Joints seem to hold up well except if it has rubber boots as they may crack in a year or 2. It is the Tie Rods that people have issues with longevity.
You want to put the best quality parts into the Car but you really don't know if doing that is worth while because something like a Vacuum Pump failure or an Oil Cooler Hose leak can ruin your Engine and so on. Also my300D has been hit x2 in a parking lot by unknowns and side swiped in traffic by a hit an run driver (My Wife got an excellent pic of the new VW Bug but it had only the dealers temp registration on the rear window and too small to read; no license plate). In short you don't know how long your Car is going to be around.
Thanks for the info. I bought a URO font end kit waay back. Not one of the URO packages had where the items were made. Uro should have copied the dimensions of the Lemforder Joints because they were fat enough that they were going to be harder to press in.
I was using the Autozone C press because I wanted to see if it would work and be something that someone would be able to use for free once it is turned in. Hence would not have been able to do any grinding on it.
The Autozone C press was the better quality one and now own 2 other company's C presses. The mentioned Harbor Freight one and one by Bulldog.
I was going to use the Autozone C press for some other purpose and found someone had damaged it. One if the hazards of rental tools.