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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 09:49 AM
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Default Steering knuckle wont line up with UCA

i have a 94 LS and did some suspension work. Now when im trying to reinstall the knuckle it wont tilt back up to meet up the the upper control arm. Any input would help. I might of overextended my cv but i was real carefull and the axel still turns so im not for sure. thanks
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 10:08 AM
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Look to see if the inner joint has been over-extended. The rubber boot will look stretched out. That's the only reason I can think of that the knuckle wouldn't connect back to the UCA.
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 10:22 AM
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it appears that way whats my next step is there any way do get around taking it all the way off to fix it. any tricks
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 10:40 AM
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You can possibly get it back in straight w/o removing the axle from the car if you mess around with it for awhile. However this happened when lowering a friend's EP3 and we had to remove the axle. For some reason I couldn't get the tripod bearings on the axle shaft to fit back into the slots in the joint cup until the axle was off the car.
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 10:48 AM
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Thanks for your help i fixed and thought i would report back to complete this thread and make it worthy of a search. All i did was take a rubber mallet and tap it a few times while rotating it and it popped back in place.
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