When i accelerate, my front wheels will move backwards in the wheel wells. when i reverse, they will move forwards. im asuming my lower ball joints are completely toast. aparently they are suposed to have 0.5mm of play. i can twist and turn mine all over the place.

these have to be pressed in and pressed out im assuming. can you press them out with a jack? press them back in with a c-clamp? or do you have to pull the knucle completely off and throw the bad boys in a vise or what?

 

In my case I took both knuckles off, it is easier that way. I thought that they were gonna have to be pressed out. I figured I'd try to hit them out with a hammer. I just threaded the nut back onto the joint and gave it 5-6 hard whacks and they pop right out. Then again I don't have rust issues. Try it. Put the new ones in and give em a few taps to seat them.

 

this is pretty much word-for-word what i did to replace the lower ball joints. it was surprisingly easy this way...

fyi, a 5lb sledge was the weapon of choice.

 

blah. so you have to pull brakes, axles, hub etc to replace it no other way around that eh?

 

you only really need to pull one side of the axle.

 

well as fate may have it. i dont have to replace my ball joints. my car got totaled today. i was hit head on buy a guy who couldnt drive in snow

 

Now that sucks. Sorry to hear that, ******* people, we see that a lot up here. Hope insurance does you well.

 

Make sure to buy another EF when the insurance check rolls through...if your getting one.

 

i will. 88 std's arent worth **** so i wiont get anything for it. plus i have to buy my hatch back to pull my **** off of it. steering wheel is worth more than car etc. im looking for a clean hatch w/ a toasted motor to throw my **** into. kind of interesting, i was on my way back from the store after buying the balljoints when i got hit.

 

Damn sorry to here that , I hate when a EF goes to heaven

 

Look on the bright side.... you'll have nice new ball joints for your next civic.


seriously, sorry to hear about that and glad to see you're still alive and aparently OK.

 

yeah im fine. i have no injuries from this accident. i was having S4 flashbacks right before i hit tho which sucked.

my accident yesterday was nothing compared to that on in Nov tho quite lucky.

 

Oh ... I think Al's car is going to hell.

 

yeppers
scooping this:

for 800 tho

 

Is that a pic of the car that you just wrote off? How fast were you going? What happened exactly to it? Really glad your ok after that....

 

that accident i was a passenger in, in nov. that was my friends car. crashed @ aprox 140mph

 

Your joking...Please tell me your joking...

 

Im pretty sure hes not joking. I remember the post from back in the day.


Yager-

 

saw it...believe it, it doesnt even look like the s4 it used to be. goodluck al on a good not i am picking up a 91 si for parts this weekend probably so if you need anything im me

 

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yeah i was thinking about swaping my harnesses over however i dunno how well that will work. hell i might as well i have the tear the entire car aparent anyway

 

i remeber that accident. but i think i read about it on another board long *** time ago.