well another sunday means another update.. right?
lets see where were we? ahh yes the front ball joints are "starting" to go bad..
luckily the ball joint on the Summit is one unit with the control arm so i couldnt just buy new ball joints.. gay
sooo, i went the satans A..hole (pick n'pull) and they happened to have a 94 hyundai elantra chillin. so i spent the better part of the afternoon pulling the control arms off that prick. only to find out that i couldnt buy them because it was 6:12 and they close at 6. they wouldnt let me buy them at all..double gay! so i went back and buried them and came back the next day and picked them up.
heres the summit control arm. notice how the sway bar mounts (the piece im holding)
this is the elantra arm mounted, notice how the swaybar mounts. so i had to swap in the old mounts off the summit arm. also notice the sweet bolt on ball joints.
heres the sway bar all ready to rock..
after all that good stuff i pulled them BACK off and painted them. the joys of building a frankenstein.
and back together
and BAM 5-lug hubs from a 1g DSM. this is actually a brake upgrade in disguise because my car is like 1000 lbs lighter than a DSM yessss!
heres the other side all apart.
i had to adjust the tie rod arms alot because the combo of parts made the front tires like this \ /
a pro alignment is for sure in my future haha.
sorry this is kind of a gay update but this is what i got goin on.. :/
hope you like it
-Justin