HourlyB
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This the J&M kit? It does look nice, if it turns out both sides of the Steeda kit are toast then I'll also do the upgrade, but if it is just the one side that's worn out, I'll just get a replacement from Steeda for $60 and hopefully it lasts another 3 years.Since you live in a place that sees winter conditions, doesn't surprise me. My Steeda bumpsteer kit is rusted to hell. I am replacing it with J&M this week when I do coilovers.
Ahhhh gotcha. I'll just double check which control arm bushings are going.The spherical bearing you can buy for the front control arms: Steeda, J&M, Cortex, etc. - those are for the tension links. The roll center correction arms that Steeda sells are the lateral links. Yes, for me, the bearings in the tension links are worth it to me for the direct steering response they give. And there is no more lag or dead zone in the steering. There is a little NVH with these bearings but worth it for me personally. Your opinion may vary.
But looking at this old pic, I think that's the tension link bushing with all that rust, which I haven't replaced, and in that case, it'll have been on the car for 61k miles/~8 years.
That would probably be far more reasonable for it to be failing, and in that case is there any substantial difference in quality between Cortex/Steeda/J&M? Or is the quality typically the same.
Hmmmm, interesting. Definitely seems like a YMMV situation, or that the Steeda/tie rods are very suseptible to . Interesting the Moog (hopefully that's the right part) works as a bumpsteer, unless you haven't lowered your car much as I have.maybe my bumpsteer was not configured right the first time, but one of my rods failed within 90 days of install - major slop in the chassis end bearing. Replaced both with Moog parts and this time a different mech did the work and I'm guess it was done right because it's been fine for 2+ years.
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