Had a little accident

[jurick]

Well I would get a picture of the gaurd rall but I am without a vehicle and I have all the parts to fix it except the steering knuckle which I am having touble getting. I will be honest I dont think all of that should of broken I wasnt going that fast and almost didnt do any damage to the body at all it had to off been the way I hit it.

 

[IZwack]

I have all the parts to fix it except the steering knuckle which I am having touble getting.

I just looked but couldnt find any knuckle at the parts store online so you'll either have to go to the dealer, or try the junk yards here in MD -- CrazyRay's has three locations very close to Baltimore. Of the four original locations, the two which I like the most are the ones in Hawkins Point Rd., and the one in Mount Airy. The least busiest is Mt. Airy so that is the one I usually go to.

http://www.crazyraysautoparts.com/

 

[jurick]

Yea I had originally ordered it online with next day air and it was $60 cheaper then the dealer but they said that the item was discontinued from ford and they could not get it so I am probably just going to go back to the dealer on this one. At least I get to replace all the suspension parts, which I am sure needed replacing. I am replacing them with Moog parts so I know that they are good.

 

[Premier]

dude, use one of the online vendors here.

 

[jurick]

Well I fixed it today. The old steering knuckle was bent about 3" at the top so thats why the tire was rubbing. I need to get a new lower control arm though because the new lower balljoint just slid into it which I dont think is supposed to happen. I also figured out something, the last time I had an allignment done they didnt tighten down the upper control arm bolts all the way and now the tire that has nothing wrong with it is sitting side ways and it is barely driveable. So now I have to fix that and then go get a real allignment.

Edit. Also now I have a coolant leak. Looked like a head gasket at first but I think it is coming from somewhere around the upper hose. I know this wasnt caused by the guard rall though because I had been noticing my coolant level going down I just didnt see any sign of it anywhere but while working on it I found coolant.