944 lower arm
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pauljmcnulty
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Wishbones can be re-conned, Hartech do it, and any indie will offer the service.
I got the strap from a car my indie had in, any of the used spares dealers should have one.
I got the strap from a car my indie had in, any of the used spares dealers should have one.
Peter Empson
PCGB Member
Sorry for going OT, but is your car back on the road yet Paul? If so was it a simple fix?
James_G
New member
Andrew, I got rebuilt arms from Hartech and I was very impressed with the quality and 6k miles on and I never even think about them. I fitted them myself (search for the post, it was less than a year ago) and it's not a difficult job if you're handy with the spanners.
I chose to do both arms as I figured that after 145k miles while only one was making a noise, the other was probably passed its best too. But you may not think that's necessary depending on the mileage of your own car.
FWIW, my nearside was the one making all the noise, my thinking being that it had taken more abuse from potholes than the other side.
pauljmcnulty
Active member
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We're in that grey area between "I heard a noise", and "there's a few areas that need attending to but none stands out as the cause".
It's great that my indie take the time to drive the car over the weekend so they can try to pinpoint the problem. I'm trying to avoid going down the route of replacing parts at random until we find an intermittent fault. What's interesting is that they've diagnosed plenty of parts that are worn, and could be causing a few odd noises, but are years away from replacing on a car that only does a few thousand gently-driven miles per year. [8|]
Peter Empson
PCGB Member
Sorry to hear that Paul, hope they get to the bottom of it soon.
Andrew,
Check your Lux carefully. If it's an early one, it will have steel wishbones and the balljoints are seperate units - easy to buy, and easy to change (they bolt on and off).
Later Lux's (I think), and the turbo and S2 models have the alloy wishbones which need a specialist to change the balljoints on. I'm not sure when they swapped over - '88 may put it in the later category.
Oli.
Check your Lux carefully. If it's an early one, it will have steel wishbones and the balljoints are seperate units - easy to buy, and easy to change (they bolt on and off).
Later Lux's (I think), and the turbo and S2 models have the alloy wishbones which need a specialist to change the balljoints on. I'm not sure when they swapped over - '88 may put it in the later category.
Oli.
sawood12
New member
You can replace the alloy A-arm balljoints yourself. It's quite easy, and contrary to popular opinion is quite safe. However what a specialist like Hartec can do for you is to re-machine the socket the ball fits into. Over time this can wear into an uneven shape meaning that when you replace the ball joint the shape of the socket does not match the shape of the ball therefore you get areas of accellarated wear and a much shorter life. Hartec have developed tooling to re-machine this socket to the correct shape if it is required.
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