Removal of front lower control arm

[fudge12]

I'm removing the front lower control arm tomorrow, and while looking at the service manual for this car, it says to remove the steering gear to get to the back end of the control arm to access the nut. Is this really necessary?

 

[elephantrider]

not necessary.

 

[alzimme]

Just find the right angles and you should be fine. It's a long bolt that they must have put in the car first and then assembled the rest of the car.

 

[RigsLS]

Impossible! That would be silly, They'd never do that!

 

[fudge12]

Well I took it off, but the passenger side steering rack boot got torn :-/ anyway to replace the it without a new rack?

 

[02LincLS]

I may be doing this myself in the very near future. Sorry for your luck but I hope to learn from it since my steering rack is only a year old. Was it the control arm, the bolt, or tools that ripped the boot?

found this in a quick search... http://www.bestpartsonline.com/auto...ls-00-03-right-270144?sort=p.model&order=DESC

Looks like you need to unbolt the outter tie rod to get it on... Might be worth it to have someplace that does alignments install it then re-align.

 

[fudge12]

It was actually the parts car that we ripped the boot on, not my daily driver. But i still would like to repair it since its a good rack. We were trying to force the bolt out using a screw driver and hammer from the nut side to pass it thru, as we were hammering it out it digged through the boot.

Do your self a favor and drop the rack, it was only two bolts to get it off.