Bottom Arm

[michaelbould]

Just kerbed my car big style, and its bent the bottom arm. Ive got a replacement bottom arm for it now. My question is, are they hard to fit? Or is it fairly easy.

Thanks for any adivce/help

[neiloakley]

piece of piss, four bolts. Undo the little one on the outside on the bottom of the hub that holds the balljoint in place (13mm). Then undo the two holding the tie bar to the arm (19mm) then finally undo the long bolt on the inside of the arm where it pivots (17mm). Tkae the arm out the pivot then using a ball joing splitter (or a hammer) and it all comes apart. Make sure you support the hub assembly otherwise it make put strain on the brake hose

[match]

its a piece of piss mate-had to do mine last saturaday would have took about an hour but 1 of the bolts wouldnt come out - had to drill the fucker out and replace it.

easiest and quickest way i found was to

unbolt the bottom ball joint from the arm (also removing anti-roll bars),
then undo the bolt holding leg to chasis and replace it. bolt ball joint and roll bars back onto leg and the jobs a good one. just put the car on axle stands then u can use the trolly jack as support under the brake disk to avoid stresses on the suspension strut etc.

[neiloakley]

which bolt did you drill out?

[match]

the one that holds the arm into the chasis that it pivots on. the twatin thing would not budge at all, started to round off so i drilled it out and replaced it with a new 1

[panthrow1]

i did that to my car three weeks ago, but on mine the inner wing? that goes around the suspension mount has come away from the rest of the engine bay. it needs about 8" of welding. can,t find anyone that will touch it tho. is it worth fixing or shall i scrap it

[match]

is there not a welder/fab shop near you that will do it. it shouldnt be that hard just time consuming

[neiloakley]

sounds like a perfect opourtunity to learn to weld if you ask me!!!!

[match]

learn to weld!!! its a bit of an important part to learn on tho! dont want the fcuk to fracture and drop off cos u dont know what u doin

[neiloakley]

dont learn on the car. Practise of some shit steel then do the car. It was only a joke anyway!!!

[match]

i know u was, just puttin out a warning incase he thought u were being serious!! i can weld but mines fine anyway so it dont matter to me like.
just had a vision of some1 tacking it back on abd it fallin off at 60 or sometning- could be fairly messy results like