Sure grip?

mypunkrock said
Thanks guys. Housemate volunteered to help me do the bushings.

The unfortunate thing with learning a lot of the car stuff is the time (grad school is a massive time suck!) versus the payout to a mechanic (grad school is not lucrative!). I've been trying to balance the two better, but it seems when it rains it pours.

Hopefully I can get the bushings done by next weekend, when I have an appointment to get some repairs on the cluster.

She is slowly coming together. Will post pics sometime in April. You guys are all a huge help :cheers:

R

Take your time, do one project, then do another. Starting from worst to least. A good way to check for the steering weak link, is get under the front end with a flashlight and look at the linkage while your buddy turns the wheel back and forth. Whatever has the most slop, replace that first.

Grab a hold of the tire and shake it for play testing, left and right is tie rods, up and down is ball joints. You don't always have to use a pickle fork either, a nice blast to the inside end of the piece in question usually knocks it loose.