Re: 98 civic brake drag issue
 

sorry for the multi-post... my ISP is sucking (wireless) and I guess it
registered three times due to me clicking POST so many times. Gotta get rid
of these guys....

loewent wrote:
>Alrighty. First, thanks Tegger and jim beam for your input.
>
>Put the back end of my car back together tonight. New rear upper arms, and
>new shocks (monroe). Seems to have taken care of the play I mentioned
>earlier. New shocks also make the car sit a little higher than before. The
>old shocks were tired.... :)
>
>Snapped another bolt (shock mount to lower arm), but thankfully I had an
>extra (dealer actually sold me those bolts instead of the other one I broke
>yesterday, they didn't have the right one in stock. These are the shock
>mount bolt and the lower arm to trailing arm pivot bolt).
>
>Drives like a champ. Well a champ in need of an alignment... Saturday will
>bring me to the front end. Will be doing that wheel bearing, the passenger
>caliper, and the front shocks. The guy at Partsource sold me some stabilizer
>bar links. For the life of me I can't seem to remember there being a
>stabilizer bar on my car. I thought that they were just in the SIs. But
>perhaps I've just never noticed it.
>
>One thing... how hard is it to screw up reassembly of the strut in the rear?
>For some reason, I couldn't get the top mounting collar to seat where I
>thought it should. The strut went back on no problem and everything seems ok,
>but I found it a bit odd.
>
>After front end stuff is done, its off to the tire shop.
>
>And after seeing how complex the rear wishbone is, its going to the dealer
>for alignment. Don't trust just any monkey to monkey around with all that
>stuff... :)
>
>t
>
>>> Forgot to mention that I used those technics as well (didn't mention
>>> cuz they didn't work!). Though I only had a propane torch, so I doubt
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>>I bought all my suspension fasteners from the dealer. A big price, but
>>at least they're correct for the car.

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