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Drivers side was the toughest! I did remove the oil filter.
The arm damage was due to front upper nut. I didn't realize what I was doing till I pulled it out.
One question I have is.. I had a washer on passenger side front upper nut but not on the drivers side. I believe I was the second to the factory to touch these.
I was mentally re-doing this work in sympathy, and remember that I have a set of extra-long combination wrenches, box on one end open on the other, that may have played a part the last time we did a clinic car suspension. One of the UCA bolts does the duty holding that angle bracket/support for the cross-member on each side. No option to move that out of the way though.
[scratches head where hair used to grow...] I think if removing the UCA bolts was a good experience, I'd work harder at remembering it.
I saw supercedar's arm and decided to put my car up on liftbars today and see how much space we were really talking about.
Ewwwwww., even tighter then I remember.
Has any body done a surgical approach from the top?
I'm (close your ears Bob) de-smogged. There is definitely some space on the passenger's side, at least on the S3. Driver's side a little more problematic.
The ball joint on one only lasted another 18 months
That was probably in part because the 928 kept subbing for my broken Cerbera, and has therefore done several track days at the Ring in the last couple of years
So I've had to fit a rebuilt A Arm, and it is quite the work of art
It was from Partworks_de and looks very similar to the 928Motorsports version
Interesting- looks as though they have threaded the upper arm to fit the locking clamp- something Porsche should have done on the S4 arms. I disassembled the joint on mine after it failed and the cap is lightly pressed in- not too surprising as there is little to no reaction trying to push it out vertically given its function is to stabilise the wheel carrier, the upwards thrust being absorbed by the lower arm and coilover..Discussed doing something similar with a local machine shop.
03-12-2017, 05:10 AM
