[Shotimes] halfshaft removal from the knuckle

[Justin Schick]

BTW the front strut job on Rich's car was completed last night. The
struts that came out were worn out Motorcrafts, and Monroe Sensitracs
went in. Didn't measure 'em but they looked to be similar lengths.

We had separated the LCA's ball joint from the bottom of the knuckle,
but they were still interfering with each other. What worked was to
loosen the 3 nuts on the mount even more, which gave us enough movement
to clear the LCA. Pulled it down, pulled the strut / knuckle rearward,
and down came the knuckle off the strut.

Thanks for all the input guys!


Justin Schick
silver 92 SHO in KC MO
194k and counting quickly

>>> <ianf@eden.rutgers.edu> 07/31/03 09:23AM >>>
Are you guys leaving the mounts bolted to the towers tightly? The strut

will drop if the nuts are loosened. I managed to get my tokicos in 
without removing the spindle. Same with Koni's in OEM housings...

Ian

> George,
> 
> Your instructions were very helpful in getting me started. I did 
everything you pointed out. But the fact was I could not slide the 
knuckle off the strut.  The strut was loose in the pinch bore, going up

and down easily.  Still the tension strut prevented me from pushing the

knuckle far enough down.  If that had worked, yes, perhaps it would 
have taken me only 2 hours/side to get it off (I also have to eat and 
drink, you know.)  But I'd never be able to do it in 15 min/side.  I 
don't know.  Didn't work for me.  Someone else on the list had trouble

too.  Your procedure WILL fail at some point when the strut gets too 
long.  Now my struts were the Tokico struts, which when I compared them

with the OEM Motorcraft struts were about 1.5" longer than the OEMs.
> 
> 
> 94MTX,green,BOS+