Dino V

Noticed that ball joints on my S2 are starting to show early signs of needing replacement. So now the question is do I rebuild ball joints with the kits available or just just buy rebuilt lower control arms. I am assuming that if I go the route of swapping control arms that the process should be faster and less headaches?

Thanks,
Dino

jeffrsmith

You will be a lot lighter in the wallet if you buy rebuilt control arms.

Obviously it would be a quicker job to complete if you buy the rebuilt arms, and time is money, but it does not take that long to rebuild them yourself and it is not an overly difficult task. The most time consuming part of rebuilding them yourself is waiting for the epoxy to properly cure before reinstalling.

There are several youtube videos showing the process, I would look at those and see if it is a job you are capable/interested in tackling yourself.

Dino V

I am willing to tackle as long as it doesn't take forever to rebuild. I have found that my patience has been rather low lately

jeffrsmith

When I did mine it took me about 2 hours total, I didn't mix the epoxy properly for the first one so I had to dig it out and redo, then I left them overnight for the epoxy to cure properly. Really not a hard job at all.

Dino V

Thank you, that's good to know! I have two helpers so hopefully knock it down in same or less.

Dino V

Decided to go with rebuilt ones with the bronze cup bushings. figured swapping control arms will save me a lot of time, especially with a second newborn daughter

Travis - sflraver

I put this video together as a "minimum tools required" tutorial on rebuilding the ball joints, if anyone else is interested. I tried to keep it true to time on rebuilding an arm so it is about 13 min long.

Check it out, hope it helps.

patanga

Great video. Thanks.

Dino V

+1 Great video! thanks for sharing!

J1NX3D

was there a change to the arms or the ball joints between late-944 to 96

968 GUY

I believe the steel arms had bolt in ball joints.
The length of the arns did change in 87.

J1NX3D

Sorry typo 96 = 968. what i meant is the rennbay kit is only for up to S2/turbo. What exactly changed for the 968 that this kit wont work?