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TRQ drivetrain kits are manufactured using premium raw materials to restore original performance. Each TRQ drivetrain component is designed to be a direct, maintenance-free replacement to the stock unit. To extend the service life of your drivetrain, TRQ recommends replacing wheel hubs, bearings, and constant velocity (CV) drive axles at the same time to ensure even wear of components and improved ride comfort. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
Replacing struts used to require specialized tools to compress, remove, and transfer the old spring and mount. Our Pre-assembled, complete strut & spring assemblies come with all new parts and make the job much quicker and easier for the do-it-yourself mechanic.
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Install Tip: When replacing steering components, have a professional alignment performed afterwards. This ensures proper tracking and even tire wear.
Our steering and suspension components are pre-greased and sealed for long life and do not require the extra maintenance typically required by greaseable versions.
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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts, installed correctly that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we're going to show you front hub replacement on this 2001 Ford Taurus, same as any '96 to '07 Taurus. This is an involved replacement. Jack, jack stands, lots of different sockets, ratchets, and wrenches. You need a larger 30 mm socket, a tie rod puller, a big hammer, a pry bar, and a screwdriver. You'll probably need an air hammer because the steering knuckle is aluminum and tends to get seized. You'll see what I mean.
Start by using a screwdriver and pry off the little cap, and try not to fumble it like I do. If you have the benefit of air tools, the air ratchet's the best way. This is a 30 mm hub nut. You want to remove it with the air tools. If you don't have air tools, you want to have your car on the ground, wheels on the ground, and then you can remove this with hand tools. You're going to need a large breaker bar because it is on here tight. Now you're going to use a 19 mm socket to remove the wheel. Next, remove the cotter pin that holds the bolts for the tie rod end. It's 18 mm.
Now you're going to use a tie rod end and ball joint puller, or pusher. Just try and make sure it's lined up as straight as you can. When it pops, then it's disconnected. Penetrating oil on the upper stabilizer link bolt and the strut clamp bolt. Yes, you'll notice that the tie rod end is connected again, because I kind of shot it out of sequence. Low soak. There's a 10 mm bolt right here that you can remove that holds the brake line bracket. We'll kind of speed through that. Then you pull that brake line bracket out, and then you slide the bracket that has the ABS sensor up and pull that clip off.
The upper stabilizer bolt, you'll need an 18 mm wrench. Then you can see I've got a 10 mm wrench on there in case I need to hold that shaft still. It turns out that this actually comes apart without even having to hold that in place. Pull that link out and then I'm just putting that bolt back on it for safekeeping. Now the bolt that holds the lower end of the strut that's an 18 mm wrench that I'm going to use to hold it. This is a 21 mm. I've just taken and pulled it the rest of the way off by hand. I didn't accidently drop it actually.
Then a small hammer, or a hammer, and just drive that bolt out. You have to drive it all the way out. That bolt actually does hold onto the strut. Once you get it out, you can usually pull it out by hand. Then you need a good size hammer, and you just hit the top of the steering knuckle. If you look real close, you can basically see the disc sliding down off of the strut. We'll speed it up a little bit here.
The big red arrow, that is the axle shaft coming through the hub. Usually I give that a nice big rap and it loosens right up. That's the case it was actually loose on this Taurus. Usually just a nice big hammer, give it one big rap and it'll loosen it up.
Now I'm ready to separate the strut from the steering knuckle. I just kind of pull the wires out of the way and down, then the washer from the hub bolt actually just kind of fell down. Then move everything down. A really different angle here. I use a smaller pry bar or a big screwdriver and basically just pry your axle up out of the hub. I should be careful of that one line right there. That is the brake line. There is generally enough slack in it to do this. Pry it up and pop it out. Then you'll grab onto it with your hands and pull it up. This does require some strength and some force, so you can pull it up and out. Now underneath, on the business end of that axle, just put a pry bar in there, and it's just a snap ring that holds that in place. Just pry it right out.
You're going want to remove these two 12 mm bolts, and then these two 15 mm bolts. These two 12 mm will allow the disc caliper to come off, and then these 15 mm bolts will allow the bracket to come off, which then allows the rotor to come off.
To remove the hub, there's now three 15 mm bolts, here, here, and up here. Without the axle with the axle in you can get to these two okay, but it's very difficult to get to the one up here. Now what I'm doing here is I'm just going to fast motion. I'm going to remove the caliper. Then I'm going to use a wire tie to secure it up top. Now I'm going to use my 15 mm on the impact wrench, remove that bracket and also remove the three bolts that are holding the hub.
Because the steering knuckle is aluminum and the hub is cast iron, they have seized together. I imagine this is probably a common problem in any Taurus. What I'm actually using is an air hammer. You can see I'm wearing protective eyewear and everything. Basically, I'm just working like crazy to try and get that hub out of there. Probably on this vehicle, you're going to want to have access to the air hammer because it took me, I would say, probably a good ten minutes of banging away on it until I finally got it free.
What I've done is I've used a wire brush to try and get most of the corrosion out I can. I'm going to want to use just a little bit of Anti-Seize. Also, it just kind of lubricates stuff a little bit. I've got my bolts back in. I put my new hub in. Get one bolt started here. Get the second one started, and the third one. Now what I'm going to do is slowly tighten them up kind of evenly so it just basically pulls the hub evenly into the steering knuckle. You don't want to just tighten one up and then tighten the other ones. You want to just tighten them a few turns each at a time. Now with the torque wrench we're going to tighten these up to 70 foot pounds.
Because this is an HD video and there's a 15 minute time limit, if you want to see the rest of putting this all back together, just check out our second video for this series.
We hope this helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the internet and in person.
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet.
Hi. I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money preparing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my twenty plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this, to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly. That's going to save you time and money. Thank you, and enjoy the video.
In this video we're going to replace the front strut on this 2001 Ford Taurus and process is pretty much the same for any '96 to '07 Taurus. Tools you'll need are not all that uncommon, Jack and Jack stands, 10 to 18 millimeter wrenches, and 10 to 21 millimeter sockets with ratchets and extensions, and a large hammer. Once you know how to do it, it's not that difficult of a job. It does require some strengths in spots, probably not the everyday do it yourself for job, but not that complicated nonetheless.
We'll start by removing the wheel. If you have benefit the air tools, that's great, if you don't have the benefit of air tools, what you want to do is first loosen your lug knots while the wheel is still on the ground, then raise the car, and take the lug nuts the rest of the way off. Use penetrating oil to spray the upper stabilizer bolt, and then the large bolt that pinches the strut in the steering knuckle. Although soak, there's a 10 millimeter bolt right here that you can remove, it holds the break line bracket. We'll kind of speed through that, then you pull that break line bracket out, and then you slide the bracket that has the ABS sensor up, and pull that clip off. The upper stabilizer bolts, you'll need an 18 millimeter wrench and then you can see I've got a 10 millimeter wrench on there, in case I need to hold that shaft still, and it turns out that this actually comes apart without even having to hold that in place.
You pull that link out and then I'm just putting the bolt back on for safe keeping, and now the bolt that holds the lower end of the strut. It's an 18 millimeter wrench that I'm going to use to hold it. This is a 21 millimeter. I'm just taking them, pull the rest way off by hand and then I accidentally dropped it actually. A small hammer or a hammer, and just drive that bolt out. You have to drive it all the way out to that bolt actually does hold on to the strut, and once you get it out, you can usually pull it out right by hand. Then you need a good size hammer, and you just hit the top of the steering knuckle. If you look real close you can basically see the disc sliding down off of the strut, and we'll speed it up a little bit here. Until, and then separate the steering knuckle and the strut. Remove these three 13 millimeter bolts and the one here. You pull the strut down, pull the top out, and just got to make sure, the stuff tries to get caught on it, the stabilizer and the wires trying to get caught. Here, left side is the new strut from 1A Auto. You can see the one from 1A Auto is all the same, the spring is already part of it so you don't have to worry about compressing a spring. The new strut just goes right in.
The old strut is actually in fine shape on this car so I am going to reinstall that. Just want to show you that the new strut from 1A Auto is going to bolt right in. We'll get to put it back in here. You want the flat part of this plate towards the outside of the car, and now you'll see all these brackets towards the inside of the car, feed it down into the wiring a little bit. Get it up and in. Move this stuff out a little bit. Feed it in front of the axle. You should have it there. You get one there, hold a bit. The free bolt started. Torque these to 35 foot pounds each. Now you want to pull these, your break line and your ABS sensor wire. You push your suspension down and pull your strut and go over. It's in.
Make sure your bracket is going down into the slot, in the steering knuckle here. Push it then, and just again make sure that it gets wind up with that slot. As long as you have that bracket lined up into the slot, in the steering knuckle, then start jacking it up then it goes together. It goes right on and you want to put the rest in, this bolt in, and once that bolt goes through, you're all set. Now, here I'm going to put the knot on the other side of that and that bolt you want to tighten up to a hundred foot pounds of torque. We want the tension back off, make sure you get this on the backside of the truck. Put your sway bar link back in, put this clip back on. Be careful of your fingers. You slide this down over, and now my backside, this little tab goes right through the hole in this clip in the strut, and holds everything together, and then the bolt, they're bolted together.
We'll fast forward through tightening that up. There's no specific torque. Just make that bolt tight. Here, we use a little tapping of the hammer. It doesn't usually take much to get that stabilizer link through the strut. Put the bolt on, and then use your 18 millimeter wrench and possibly your 10 millimeter and get that link nice and tight again, no specific torque specification. Just get it good and tight. You just have to take off a little bit with the impact line. With the tire around, you want to tighten up the wall knots anywhere from 75 to 100-foot pounds, and use the star pattern, so one, two, cross, cross, cross.
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This is part two of the hub bearing, just basically putting everything back together. Just a quick refresher on the tools you'll probably need, although some of the special tools you've already used.
The axle pretty much goes in like it came out. You want to put it right up and in. Just give it a good push. Make sure it goes all the way in. Check it from down below here. Make sure there's no shininess showing there and it's all in. Take your axle and push it right into the hub. Now you want to pull these, your brake line and your ABS sensor wire. Basically, push your suspension down and pull your strut right over so it's in. Make sure your bracket is going down into the slot in the steering knuckle here. Then push it down. Again, make sure that gets lined up with that slot. As long as you have that bracket lined up into the slot in the steering knuckle, you start jacking it up, and it goes together. It goes right on. You want to keep lifting. Put this bolt in. Once that bolt goes through, you're all set.
Here I'm going to put the nut on the other side of that. That bolt you want to tighten up to 100 foot-pounds of torque. Put your sway bar link back in. Put this clip back on. Just be careful of your fingers. Then you slide this down, over, then on the back side this little tab goes right through the hole in this clip and the strut and holds everything together. Then the bolt will bolt it together. We'll fast forward through tightening that up. There's no specific torque, just make that bolt tight. Here we'll use a little tapping of the hammer. Doesn't usually take much to get that stabilizer link through the strut. Then put the bolt on. Then use your 18 millimeter wrench and possibly your 10 millimeter and get that link nice and tight. Again, no specific torque specification, just get it good and tight.
Now you want to reconnect your tie rod end. Put that bolt on. You're going to torque this to 50 foot pounds. Then pull it just a little tighter so we can get the cotter pin in. Going to speed through putting the cotter pin in here using a hammer, kind of beat it in there. Then I just bend it over with my hand, make sure it stays. I'm going to speed through putting the brakes back together, and if you notice, you probably saw the brakes on there altogether before that's because I kind of shot a few different videos at once. Pretty easy. Larger bolts, 65 foot pounds. Smaller bolts, 20 foot pounds. If you want to see this in regular motion, just check out our Taurus brake video.
Now here I'm going to put the washer and the hub bolt back on. Then I'm going to grab my impact wrench. If you don't have impact tools, put your wheel back on and lower the car down on the ground, and then you can do that. You can see I'm looking in behind. Basically what I'm doing is watching the axle go into the hub, and once I see the axle pretty much get all in the hub and the wrench slow down that's when I stop because I will want to torque it by hand with the car on the ground.
So, I'll save you all the details of putting the wheel back on, but needless to say, put it on. Put the lug nuts on. I tighten in the lug nuts preliminarily with the impact wrench and then let the car down to the ground. Now with the car on the ground, that 30 millimeter nut, I'm going to tighten it up to 130 foot pounds. Now I'll put the little cap back on, the center cap. Just get it positioned right and give it a good tap with your fist or with a little hammer. Get it positioned right and then give it a good tap with your fist or a little hammer. Then going to torque my lug nuts to between anywhere from 80 and 100 foot pounds. Use a star pattern so cross, cross, cross, and cross. When you road test, just be careful. Go slow the first time out. You should be all set from there.
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