Replaces
Part Details
TRQ suspension kits are manufactured using premium raw materials and coatings for extended service life. Each TRQ suspension component is designed to be a direct, maintenance-free replacement to the stock unit. To extend the life of your steering and suspension components, TRQ recommends replacing components in pairs, sets, or kits. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
Product Features
Our direct fit gas-charged shock absorbers help restore your vehicle's handling and ride quality to just like new.
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.
Strut & spring assembly contains:
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.
Item Condition:
New
Attention California Customers:
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Chromium (Hexavalent Compounds), which is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
Lifetime Warranty
This item is backed by our limited lifetime warranty. In the event that this item should fail due to manufacturing defects during intended use, we will replace the part free of charge. This warranty covers the cost of the part only.
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Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
Turn the knuckle out a little bit this way until we see the ball joint. Remove the cotter pin using some needle nose pliers. Pop the little part up and over—that should come right out. Let's spray some rust penetrant on it to help it move. Take your 19mm box wrench.
This is really hard to move, so I'm going to use the dead blow mallet and hit the wrench. Try to break it free. This is on here pretty tight. I tried hitting it with the dead blow, but it didn't work, so we're going to use a cheater bar here. You could just use a piece of pipe. Going to put it over the wrench and give you extra leverage. Sometimes you loosen it too far and then you can't get your box wrench out, so I'm just going to tighten it back up a little bit. And once I can get my box wrench out, now we take the open-ended part and continue to loosen in. That will have to come off, with it loosened, so what we're going to do is thread it back down but not all the way. Then I'll start loosening these bolts under here.
I'll just spray some rust penetrant on the bolt that's right here, that's holding the ball joint in and on the two nuts. I have a 17mm socket and extension and a long breaker bar to get these free. That one's loose. Get this one loose. I've got those loose. I'm going to switch to a ratchet. Now, I'm just taking them out.
I'm going to use a ball joint separator and slide it in here. Get it in place. Use the appropriate sized socket for yours—this one is a 15/16ths. Going to tighten it and it will pop the ball joint down. Break free with a snap. Remove this nut the rest of the way. Now I can get the nut off that it's slid down. This ball joint is loose. It's also loose here in the arm. Going to use some pry bars to just pry down on the arm and pop the ball joint out of the lower control arm. And just, the whole strut is holding the brake, knuckle, and axle assembly. I just reach up here and just pop this down, and that should slide right out of there.
This is our original ball joint that came out of the vehicle. Here’s a brand new one from 1AAuto.com. See the same style ball joint. A new one comes with a new castle nut, and also comes with some new nuts for underneath and a new bolt and a new cotter pin. They're the same style ball joint. This one is marked L for left. This should fit great and work great in your vehicle.
I'm just going to wipe some dirt off the top of the control arm right here. A little bit of the grease off the bottom of the knuckle. Don't have to go crazy, just some of the big chunks, get them out of there. Take the ball joint and get it up in here. Now, I'll take the castle nut and just sort of capture it, just so the ball joint doesn't fall out. Now, I can pull down, and push this out a little bit. I just kind of maneuvered it up into here. I'm just going to give it a little push, get it into place, use the pry bar to kind of readjust it, and just push it home with my hand. I'll get these two nuts caught so it doesn't pop back out. There's a new washer that came with this one.
Reinstall that with the bolt. Thread them in by hand, but don't cross-thread. Now I'm just going to snug these down and come back and torque them afterwards, but in the meantime, get them nice and even.
I want to torque these, starting with this nut here, then the rear nut, then the bolt. Torquing these to 43 foot-pounds. I'll turn this back out so I can see the nut and already getting tight. The placement nut is at 21mm. Use the open-ended part of the wrench to tighten. There is a torque for these, it's very difficult to get a torque wrench in here so I'm just going to tighten it nice and tight because it will have the cotter pin to hold it.
Almost there where the opening is free for the cotter pin. So, right there, I can go straight through with the cotter pin now. Right through here. Grab the cotter pin with my fingers and bend it up now. Sometimes you might need to use pliers. This one's long enough I can do it with my fingers. These go down that way, go down that way. Cotter pin is installed. The ball joint is replaced.
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