[T3] ball joints

[Bobsnotch at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/8/2012 5:08:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
cscsheridan at gmail.com writes:

Also,
I should clarify, because I have 2 young children and a wife  who has had it
up past here with my VW issue, I have very little time to  actually work on
the car. Therefore, when they go out of town for a weekend  next month, my
intention is to not just replace currently broken parts, but  anything that
may or may not break within the next 5 years. Yes I'm totally  annoyed by
the the squealing brakes and creaking and judder, since the  brake parts are
practically new, and yes the calipers could be totally fine  and may be
installed wrong, but I'm not committed to exploring  that  first, I'd rather
go in once and replace everything and then see if I still  get the squeal.
That is why I'm replacing all those parts. If I have the  opportunity to get
under the front end, I want to do everything one time,  not troubleshoot and
buy parts one at a time etc. I don't have the time to  do that anymore
unfortunately. I know you'll argue that It's a waste of  parts and time and
money because I haven't properly trouble shot the  problem, but this is what
I have to do to keep this thing daily driving  without working on it every
weekend.



I fully understand what you're trying to do. Do you have a Bentley? I'm  
just asking, because page 16 of the front axle covers part of the  upper 
trailing arm play problem. What Bentley doesn't cover, is that you need to  check 
the left side, as you can literally extract the "sway bar" out of the left  
upper trailing arm, if it's not locked down and secure. I believe it was 
our own  Greg Merritt (the list master) who found that his LU anchor point had 
 wallowed out, and wasn't staying put. As a result, he found that by 
flipping the  bar over and drilling a new dimple along with replacing the grub 
screw it  was able to be salvaged and put back into service. This can be done 
by yourself,  as can everything else you want to replace. Yours could be 
doing this too, so it  doesn't hurt to check it while you're in there doing the 
rest of the front  end.
 
Like I started to say, I do understand what you want to do. My T-34 is an  
example of this too, in that I've replaced the rotors (wide 5 pattern), new  
calipers, wheel bearings, tie rod ends, upper and lower ball joints, and a  
steering dampener. I still want to replace the steering biscuit, but I 
haven't  found any yet that still have the cloth weave in them. It seems the 
people  making them now have left that little detail out, and to me that's a 
big detail,  as when the rubber (or urethane) breaks down, you loose ALL 
steering. :O  However, I've done all of this because the car has been inop for 
almost 30 years  now, and I'm going cross country in that car in about 3 
months. I've also redid  the rears, converted to a dual circuit master cylinder, 
went with Dot 5 brake  fluid, and I've got 4 new tires waiting to be mounted 
on rebuilt rims.  I did all of this because I don't want to get back in 
there any time soon (sound  familiar?).  

Bob 65 Notch  S with sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
64 T-34 Ghia  (Wolfie)
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