[Shotimes] Axle replacement progress?

[Ron Porter]

Yeah, but it's easy enough to mark the strut plate position with a Sharpie.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 3:25 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Axle replacement progress?


True.  But those days are long gone for me...  :O
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sun, December 5, 2004 2:27 pm, Ron Porter said:
> But if the welds aren't broken, there's nothing to get out of alignment if
> you remove the strut.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: Shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Axle replacement progress?
>
>
> I'm sure you can get enough play if you loosen the 3 nuts on top of the
> strut tower, and it would also help to have the plate welds broken.  As
> for the alignment, again I suggest marking the plate on the strut tower
> and this way you don't have to worry.  I've seen this done before when I
> had my tranny seals replaced.  There's more than one way to skin a cat.
> --
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 92 Ultra Red Crimson
>
> On Sun, December 5, 2004 10:33 am, George Fourchy said:
>> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:36:19 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Carl Prochilo
>> wrote:
>>
>>>you want to leave the
>>>strut connected to the knuckle, but you want to back the knuckle off the
>>>axle or half-shaft.
>>
>> I've discovered that one needs more flexibility in movement of the
>> knuckle
>> in order
>> to get the outer stub shaft out from behind it.  This is why I remove
>> the
>> strut.
>> Rather than supporting the knuckle with the strut, I support it with the
>> LCA.  The
>> ball joint is much more flexible and can move in multiple directions,
>> rather than
>> just left or right as with the strut.
>>
>> George
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