i think its the bracket that holds the lca, but im not sure, its raining really bad so i havent had a chance to look at it.

but i was going around a curve goin like 40mph and my backend started comin around so i tried to correct it but just wasnt enough and my front left wheel hit the curb.
heres a pic. and i hurt my rim it scratched the lip up

 

try checking where your front cross member bolts up to your sub-frame. i hit a curb in the snow and my tire was kicked into the back of the wheel well and it was the sub frame got bent.

 

so was your ish totalled from that or what, i think thats what happened to mine.

 

ouch ,that doesnt look sexy

 

That happened to mine as well ... just not that bad.

Just yesterday I replaced the crossmember, sway bar, and LCA and it seems to have fixed it.

I'm not sure which one of those actually was the problem, but if anything, it was probably the crossmember. It was the only thing that was noticably tweaked, right where it bolts in on the drivers side. I'd pull it off and see how it looks. It's only like 4 bolts and then those two bolts on the radius rods.

Good luck

 

i did that exact thing you did...i have to replace my bent LCA, radius rod, and axle....then i was fine..

 

be prepared to replace all of this ****...been there done that...your entire crossmember could be fucked like mine was...NOT fun...you'll then have to unbolt the steering rack, and the rear engine mount, and **** with the LCA and tie rods on the passenger side as well. Then you're going to need an alignment for sure...and the **** will probably never feel the same. Mine never did.

Edit: the "bracket" that holds the LCA is the entire front-rear lower crossmember.

4 bolts, you'll need to disconnect the steering rack from the column...undo the tie rods, and the LCA's as well as the rear engine mount. Have a friend handy because lifting that ****** back up there to bolt it back on when you get a new one is a real bitch. I barely managed it by myself doing a ******* acrobatic trick of holding up part of it with my leg while bolting the other side in, and I consider myself to be a fairly strong person. (I've broken sockets in half due to overtightening with a breaker bar before)

Check out the ******* BROKEN knuckle in the top right corner of this pic.



Radius rod snapped in two...had to get another one of those too.

Gee...which one is the normal one I wonder?



Modified by PlastikOwl at 5:03 PM 9/7/2004

 

okwell i got up under it and looked really good w/ my friend, seems that just the bracket that holes the lca on the crossmember is bent and the lca is bent,. the axle COULD be bent its hard to tell right now, but i think thats it. im gona take it apart tomorrow and look at each piece.

 

the "bracket" is welded/built in to the crossmember. It's not a piece you can just take off. Look at the first picture I posted. Go to a junkyard and get another crossmember.

I can almost guarantee you won't be bale to bend it back into place either.

 

problems with lifting back into place eh??? all you have to do is use a jack to jack up one side put one bolt in just enough to hold it, then go to the other side and repeat...then you can torque all the bolts properly

 

Sucks man

 

I did the same to my car almost a year ago from now. Mine was not as nearly as bad as yours, but all that I did was a snapped radius rod and a bent LCA. But like I said yours is a lot worse than mine was.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PlastikOwl &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the "bracket" is welded/built in to the crossmember. It's not a piece you can just take off. Look at the first picture I posted. Go to a junkyard and get another crossmember.

I can almost guarantee you won't be bale to bend it back into place either.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Dont even try to bend it back

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CRX_Control &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ouch ,that doesnt look sexy </TD></TR></TABLE>

what he said

 

i did the same thing but not as bad. im in the same boat adn not really sure how i wanna go about doing it. my wheel didnt hit the curb thought, it was my toe hook.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PlastikOwl &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">be prepared to replace all of this ****...been there done that...your entire crossmember could be fucked like mine was...NOT fun...you'll then have to unbolt the steering rack, and the rear engine mount, and **** with the LCA and tie rods on the passenger side as well. Then you're going to need an alignment for sure...and the **** will probably never feel the same. Mine never did.

Edit: the "bracket" that holds the LCA is the entire front-rear lower crossmember.

4 bolts, you'll need to disconnect the steering rack from the column...undo the tie rods, and the LCA's as well as the rear engine mount. Have a friend handy because lifting that ****** back up there to bolt it back on when you get a new one is a real bitch. I barely managed it by myself doing a ******* acrobatic trick of holding up part of it with my leg while bolting the other side in, and I consider myself to be a fairly strong person. (I've broken sockets in half due to overtightening with a breaker bar before)
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i had to replace my rear subframe about 2 weeks ago, what a ******* bitch that was.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by daidilus &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">problems with lifting back into place eh??? all you have to do is use a jack to jack up one side put one bolt in just enough to hold it, then go to the other side and repeat...then you can torque all the bolts properly</TD></TR></TABLE>

I only had one jack

Just lifted it up there myself and cursed until the bolt lined up properly.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PlastikOwl &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the "bracket" is welded/built in to the crossmember. It's not a piece you can just take off. Look at the first picture I posted. Go to a junkyard and get another crossmember.

I can almost guarantee you won't be bale to bend it back into place either.</TD></TR></TABLE>

what would prices for these parts go for?

 

I don't think I paid much more than 115 dollars at my local junkyard for all of those pieces...it was a few years ago so I can't remember all too well.

 

i paid 65 for the cross member from a junkyard but i had to pull it myself.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Optimus_primeR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">okwell i got up under it and looked really good w/ my friend, seems that just the bracket that holes the lca on the crossmember is bent and the lca is bent,. the axle COULD be bent its hard to tell right now, but i think thats it. im gona take it apart tomorrow and look at each piece.</TD></TR></TABLE>

So how does it look?

 

didnt get a chance to do it today, spent the morning at the dentist then came back home just to watch the damn hurricane, its like flooding here. it sucks.

 

what kind of driving conditions justify this? instantaneous flash flooding. learn to drive.

 

uh, ok i can drive pretty damn good, this was an ACCIDENT. i hydroplaned and my back end came around. what could i do to stop this? besides not driving in the rain??? i was doing the speedlimit and i wasnt ******* around. so shut the hell up ******* noob.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by stmizner &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what kind of driving conditions justify this? instantaneous flash flooding. learn to drive.</TD></TR></TABLE>

ur an ingnorant assclown