In my experience, those flimsy little washers are often rotted beyond
recognition...
Smart idea, using the tape. You could use a turn of scotch tape around the
assembly just before shoving
it into the A-arm, and simply let fragments of it remain afterwards.
Doug
At 08:05 PM 10/24/02 -0700, Dan Canaan wrote:
>Yeah, two metal washers per side. The trap the square sided O ring between
>them. My kit didn't have any assembly instructions and the originals had
>rotted away long ago so it took me a while to figure out the assembly method.
>You can use a light assembly grease such as white lithium to help keep things
>together, but unless you are ready to put it together into the control arm at
>that point, I wouldn't do it until you are ready. If you really insist on
>doing it, tape the finished assembly together so you don't get dirt into the
>joints past the O ring.
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