MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
I have had this Polara 4 years now and have done very little to it, its my daily driver. Right away I put two tires on it and was going to get the others in another two weeks, that didn’t happen. Fast forward to this month where I start by ordering a couple ball joints as the front makes all sorts of noise on bumps and is very sloppy on rough roads. While waiting for those to show up I got two tires, I chose to go with 225 where the fronts were 215 (it is what was on the car when I got it and very bald at that).
Ball joints in hand I set off to do them and pulled the drum saw some very clean raspberry grease, never seen colored grease before. A couple things I notices were the pads were almost gone and the adjuster cable was on its last thread literally. Before I started taking things apart I noticed that they didn’t look as bad as it drove so I started moving things about and then saw the idler that was totally shot with lots of vertical movement and the ball end was separating. I put it back together without doing the ball joints and before lowering the car back down I put a bar under the wheel and checked the play, pretty much none (control arm was supported). Off to order an idler.
Ball joints in hand I set off to do them and pulled the drum saw some very clean raspberry grease, never seen colored grease before. A couple things I notices were the pads were almost gone and the adjuster cable was on its last thread literally. Before I started taking things apart I noticed that they didn’t look as bad as it drove so I started moving things about and then saw the idler that was totally shot with lots of vertical movement and the ball end was separating. I put it back together without doing the ball joints and before lowering the car back down I put a bar under the wheel and checked the play, pretty much none (control arm was supported). Off to order an idler.
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