From this...



...to this...



...because of this...



A sad, sad day for the Integra.

Long story short, castle nut and cotter pin fell out while I was making a u turn, the lower half of the suspension gave out, axel broke, and kicked the wheel out to a 45 degree angle, and that's what caused the body damage...mechanically it has been repaired...just needs some paint

It could have been a lot worse, I'm lucky I wasn't going very fast.
Plus this all happened in front of a towing company and a reputable speed shop

 

damn that sucks dude unlucky as hell. good that you got it fixed

 

Learn to tighten your bolts.

 

lesson well learned huh?

trust me, ive learned my lesson. on a customers car...

 

Yeah, about 12 months ago I did a auto to manual swap and that was the last time I ever touched the suspension, I didn't have any problems until yesterday.

 

I never liked the whole castle nut and cotter pin thing at all

 

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i like the castle nut and cotter pin cause if you tq all the bolts and put the cotter pin in this doesnt happen.

but **** happens

 

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Why not? If the cotter pin is there that won't ever happen. If the cotter pin is bent back on itself properly, there's no chance it could ever come out on its own.

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Long story short, castle nut and cotter pin fell out while I was making a u turn, the lower half of the suspension gave out, axel broke, and kicked the wheel out to a 45 degree angle, and that's what caused the body damage...mechanically it has been repaired...just needs some paint </TD></TR></TABLE>

shouldn't have been making U-turns haha

 

I'm nervous about my ball joints every day but it's been almost a year since i've fucked with them and no problems yet. They look like they need to be replaced though.

 

same **** happened to me.....axle snapped and snapped the lca in half cuz it shot through the rim.....air bags popped...i got lucky and the wheel turned outward so i didnt get body damge like that.....still very scary wen it happens

 

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Why not? If the cotter pin is there that won't ever happen. If the cotter pin is bent back on itself properly, there's no chance it could ever come out on its own.

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Yea i know , its just everytime after i torque the castle nut and then bring it back out I just dont like it . Dont mind me im just weird like that

 

shoot I had my cotter pins break off on me one time, because I tried to re-use old ones that I had taken out. So I cut some pieces of wire coat hanger and stuck it through the holes in the stud, wrapped the wire around the nut, and there it stayed for several months and many thousands of miles until I finally got around to ordering new cotter pins. No problems at all, anything that you can bend to make it stay in the balljoint stud works fine to keep the castle nut from backing off.

 

BTW, I've also seen a similar thing happen on rod bolts (well the nut that goes on the stockers). It leads to a hole in the side of the block....which I'd probably prefer to this. A hole in the block doesnt really put me in danger, whereas this could've done so.