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broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:04 pm
by 91retta
Hi everyone
I snapped my control arm last week (ill post some pics). I now have replaced it but i think it might have hurt some other parts when it happened and wanted to know what everyone’s thoughts on it.
Thanks
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:49 pm
by 3X00-Modified
only other parts that could have been hurt would be axle, strut mount, and tierod.... And well fender depending on if this happened while moving or not.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:54 pm
by Travelor
how did you manage to snap a control arm? Those are built to last... The bolts should have snapped first.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:21 pm
by 91retta
Im not sure how i broke it. i was just starting to drive away from my house.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:25 pm
by 91retta
only other parts that could have been hurt would be axle, strut mount, and tierod.... And well fender depending on if this happened while moving or not.
i put in a new axle. she is still not right ill check the strut and strut mount after work and the inner fener is a little hurt but not to much.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:30 pm
by 91retta
here are a few pics after i put in the new one
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:49 pm
by 3X00-Modified
Travelor wrote:how did you manage to snap a control arm? Those are built to last... The bolts should have snapped first.
Rust... DURRRRR!
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:15 pm
by woody90gtz
Yeah, the driver's control arm on my 95 was ready to go any day... Rust is the devil.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:27 pm
by 91retta
yeah its killer
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:34 pm
by Travelor
3X00-Modified wrote:Travelor wrote:how did you manage to snap a control arm? Those are built to last... The bolts should have snapped first.
Rust... DURRRRR!
RAWR! Smartass!
I've NEVER seen this happen. I've seen the bolts snap from rust first, or the ball joint fall apart. Never the actual control arm....
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:47 pm
by DTMAce
Seem to recall someone else having the same thing happen to them a year ago. And I have seen pics of the rot the arms can get. No pretty.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:12 am
by 3X00-Modified
Happened to my Ex's sisters corsica, the control arm split right in line with where the sway bar attaches... Responded just like a ball joint failure and the wheel went back and bent the hell out of the left front fender, Pulled the axle apart and all that jazz... I have pics somewhere.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:28 am
by beroutofjtown
On my Beretta one of them snapped on me and the other one was cracked and going to do the same thing.
They both were cracked right where the sway bar is, if I were anyone here I would get the wheels off and check them.
(mod note - combined two posts into one, and fixed some misspelled words. )
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:59 pm
by Rex 2.0
I bent the hell out of one from a killer pothole on my old 95.
Re: broke my control arm
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:23 pm
by Money pit Beretta
Wow the rust didn't look all that bad and it broke. That puts alot of fear in me. I just got some used ones and need to check them out(Car Part.com). Dang wish I still had that 90GT. Those things had only spots do to all the oil leaks(lol).
Dang Rex 2.0 looks like it bent at one of the welds. Do you think it would have bent there anyway? Just asking because I'm thinking about welding the "new" ones.