This afternoon I addressed a nagging clunk from the front suspension of SWMBO's Infiniti I30. I suspected the links at the ends of the sway bar, and so I'd purchased a set earlier, something like $25 for the set. The links connect to the end of the sway bar with a bolt through a couple rubber bushings compressed between some big dish washers, and the old rubber bits looked pretty tired. The other end of the link is a ball joint that connects to the lower control arm. The whole thing is way too complicated in my opinion, but the parts are cheap enough and not too hard to replace.
"While I was there" I also checked the ball joint play between the lower control arm and the wheel carrier, which is very similar to the 124 set up. The FSM calls for measuring the play with a dial indicator and the acceptable amount of play is "0 mm". I measured 0.1 mm on both sides, and one side is pretty new with only about 10k miles. I think I'll live with it for now. The boots are intact and after I replace the sway bar links all the noise was gone. ------------- Max Charleston SC _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
