First I'd like to say, I read ZERO of what went on below.
I just wanted to say this, this forum is MUCH better now that engineer20 is confined to a few threads of his own, and not necro-posting to 10 ancient threads at once. I encourage everyone not to encourage him.
Originally Posted By: engineer20
I'm storing the CONTROL ARM BUSHINGS, I am REPLACING the sway bar bushings. The Cont arm was made in japan/special orderred. The sway bar ones are in stock, one was made in USA but older, and the rest were from India, I haven't bought that one yet, but I have bought the japanese control arm bushings.
Said I'd store the control arm bushings, but my question was, DOES IT HURT to change them out now near 170k as preventative maintenance or don't?
Yesterday, I went to a U pull in junkyard nearby, and I risked it because they dont' tell you what's in there! I would see 97-99 camrys often, but rarely my camry, but I paid the dollar to get in (not that bad, like buying a lotto ticket that i know i'll lose money on, but this time, I "won") because there was an 02 camry there! I pulled off a wheel from it, as well as a bumper cover. The camry is black, and my rear bumper cover is cracked, so I'll replace that. I destroyed those plastic rivets that hold the bumper in, so I guess get the ones from the dealer or from oreilly's/parts stores? I kept the old broken ones as referenceing for dimensioning so i can get aftermarket ones which are cheaper. Ripping it off was easy becasue it's a U pull it and the bumper as already half off when I started since the tailight was ripped off as well as some other stuff, now it's the intallation which may be hard, and I"ll do that later.
Anyways, I got one wheel with tire off, but I wanted to get a second. The wheels are in perfect condition! This junkyard dosdn't tell you mileage, but I saw an oil change sticker from october of 2015 saying 199k, so I bet the car has around 200k on it, and for 200k, the car was in good condition! I looked at a lot of the suspension compoennts. I wanted to rip off a stabilizer link since it's oem, but i saw one of the boots was torn. I also saw the control arm, which I considered, but only took the wheel and bumper cover, and plan to maybe return again tomorrow for about an hour or so after work (it's nearby) and because of DST they begin summer hours so it's open to 6 now, rather than 4:30. I can post this picture of the control arm. My control arm was similar, in that the bushing isn't straight, it was sagging when I jacked it up, is this normal? I see some tears on it, it's from the JUNKAYRD, NOT MY CAMRY, and I saw the struts were also semi leaky, not in good condition, but I plan to rip a strut off and maybe reinstall it, so I can know the process, the back seat is already partially torn off, as in it's torn off, but wasn't taken away, so that may make things easier.
Also, I can't take the axle nut off, because the trans and engine have been removed, i wanted to pull an engine pan but it didn't have it, but I saw this rod that went to what was left of the transmission was spinning. So the axle nut doesn't come off since the whole hub spins. if the trans was in the car, it'd stop it from spinning, but because there's only a rod left, that resistance is gone and the rod spins with the axle nut, but I saw someone using a pipe wrench on round things, so have somone hold that rod that I see left in thwere the trans is, and then hold it with a pipe wrench, while I try to take the axle nut off? or what other advice do you have given this dilemna? I want to maybe remove the steering knuckle, but I think it's risky as it was rusty and could also have a bad wheel bearing! If I get a junkyard steering knuckle, i think it's better NOT to go to a u pull it, since the ones with the parts on the shelves, often have the parts tested, so they are good parts. BUT, I think while I might not get anything else from this car, it's a good car to practice on, as in pay the dollar, pratcice on the rear strusts, pratcie with the rear stabilizer bar links bushings, and also with the hex thing on the oem stab bar, I think a hex key is too weak and may round, and I didn't bring penetrating oil to the junkyard! next time, I"ll bring it next time. but the stabilizer link, I tried my hex key, which was in my tool bag I brought in, but it didn't work, it would round, so you need a socket. it's 5.5 mm, so I guess I'll buy a hex socket (do you recommend 1/4 or 3/8 drive for this) and now that I have that craftsman 3/8 ratchet as well as my normal husky 3/8 roundhead ratchet, I can use 2 ratchets to remove the oem stab links to get to the strut and control amrm and steering knuckle.
If you remove a part and don't buy it, should you reinstall it, or do you not have to? I see many parts in the trunk (ruined, unfortunately becasue it rained and the trunk was open), BUT I moved them to the backseat, since the windows are on the car, so if it rains those parts the other people pulled off but didn't use/buy will be saved, otherwise, if you leave them in the rain, they'll be ruined, as I saw an alternator from that car drenched in rainwater, sadly yesterday, so is it OK or acceptable and is it proper junkyard etiquette to put parts you pulled but aren't buyuing INSIDE the car? You could put it in the turnk, but that isn't proper junkyard etiquette which may ruin the part due to rain, OR should you reinstall it and put the part back in, for proper etiquettte?
I also need a tailight, since my rear one has some cracks and I used tailight tape on the rear left, but they only had the right side one! the left was already pulled off
but I think it's better to not go to a u pull it for a steering knuckel. i see belle tire papers from last year and last year, they said it was the left wheel bearing, and this year, they said the same, whereas some times, belle tire, didn't say anything about my wheel bearings and said they were fine.
The car makes a slight roaring noise when I turn left, so it that the left one? my plan was to get a junkyard steering knuckle, left, and install it, and see if the noise goes away, if so, i'm all set, if not, it's not the wheel bearing and it's something else, OR the junkyard steering knuckel also has a bad bearing, in this case, I have 30 days to return it in case the part does work, but if you go to a one where it's on the shelf and isn't a u pull it, the parts generally are ok and working.
I just wanted to say this, this forum is MUCH better now that engineer20 is confined to a few threads of his own, and not necro-posting to 10 ancient threads at once. I encourage everyone not to encourage him.
Originally Posted By: engineer20
I'm storing the CONTROL ARM BUSHINGS, I am REPLACING the sway bar bushings. The Cont arm was made in japan/special orderred. The sway bar ones are in stock, one was made in USA but older, and the rest were from India, I haven't bought that one yet, but I have bought the japanese control arm bushings.
Said I'd store the control arm bushings, but my question was, DOES IT HURT to change them out now near 170k as preventative maintenance or don't?
Yesterday, I went to a U pull in junkyard nearby, and I risked it because they dont' tell you what's in there! I would see 97-99 camrys often, but rarely my camry, but I paid the dollar to get in (not that bad, like buying a lotto ticket that i know i'll lose money on, but this time, I "won") because there was an 02 camry there! I pulled off a wheel from it, as well as a bumper cover. The camry is black, and my rear bumper cover is cracked, so I'll replace that. I destroyed those plastic rivets that hold the bumper in, so I guess get the ones from the dealer or from oreilly's/parts stores? I kept the old broken ones as referenceing for dimensioning so i can get aftermarket ones which are cheaper. Ripping it off was easy becasue it's a U pull it and the bumper as already half off when I started since the tailight was ripped off as well as some other stuff, now it's the intallation which may be hard, and I"ll do that later.
Anyways, I got one wheel with tire off, but I wanted to get a second. The wheels are in perfect condition! This junkyard dosdn't tell you mileage, but I saw an oil change sticker from october of 2015 saying 199k, so I bet the car has around 200k on it, and for 200k, the car was in good condition! I looked at a lot of the suspension compoennts. I wanted to rip off a stabilizer link since it's oem, but i saw one of the boots was torn. I also saw the control arm, which I considered, but only took the wheel and bumper cover, and plan to maybe return again tomorrow for about an hour or so after work (it's nearby) and because of DST they begin summer hours so it's open to 6 now, rather than 4:30. I can post this picture of the control arm. My control arm was similar, in that the bushing isn't straight, it was sagging when I jacked it up, is this normal? I see some tears on it, it's from the JUNKAYRD, NOT MY CAMRY, and I saw the struts were also semi leaky, not in good condition, but I plan to rip a strut off and maybe reinstall it, so I can know the process, the back seat is already partially torn off, as in it's torn off, but wasn't taken away, so that may make things easier.
Also, I can't take the axle nut off, because the trans and engine have been removed, i wanted to pull an engine pan but it didn't have it, but I saw this rod that went to what was left of the transmission was spinning. So the axle nut doesn't come off since the whole hub spins. if the trans was in the car, it'd stop it from spinning, but because there's only a rod left, that resistance is gone and the rod spins with the axle nut, but I saw someone using a pipe wrench on round things, so have somone hold that rod that I see left in thwere the trans is, and then hold it with a pipe wrench, while I try to take the axle nut off? or what other advice do you have given this dilemna? I want to maybe remove the steering knuckle, but I think it's risky as it was rusty and could also have a bad wheel bearing! If I get a junkyard steering knuckle, i think it's better NOT to go to a u pull it, since the ones with the parts on the shelves, often have the parts tested, so they are good parts. BUT, I think while I might not get anything else from this car, it's a good car to practice on, as in pay the dollar, pratcice on the rear strusts, pratcie with the rear stabilizer bar links bushings, and also with the hex thing on the oem stab bar, I think a hex key is too weak and may round, and I didn't bring penetrating oil to the junkyard! next time, I"ll bring it next time. but the stabilizer link, I tried my hex key, which was in my tool bag I brought in, but it didn't work, it would round, so you need a socket. it's 5.5 mm, so I guess I'll buy a hex socket (do you recommend 1/4 or 3/8 drive for this) and now that I have that craftsman 3/8 ratchet as well as my normal husky 3/8 roundhead ratchet, I can use 2 ratchets to remove the oem stab links to get to the strut and control amrm and steering knuckle.
If you remove a part and don't buy it, should you reinstall it, or do you not have to? I see many parts in the trunk (ruined, unfortunately becasue it rained and the trunk was open), BUT I moved them to the backseat, since the windows are on the car, so if it rains those parts the other people pulled off but didn't use/buy will be saved, otherwise, if you leave them in the rain, they'll be ruined, as I saw an alternator from that car drenched in rainwater, sadly yesterday, so is it OK or acceptable and is it proper junkyard etiquette to put parts you pulled but aren't buyuing INSIDE the car? You could put it in the turnk, but that isn't proper junkyard etiquette which may ruin the part due to rain, OR should you reinstall it and put the part back in, for proper etiquettte?
I also need a tailight, since my rear one has some cracks and I used tailight tape on the rear left, but they only had the right side one! the left was already pulled off
but I think it's better to not go to a u pull it for a steering knuckel. i see belle tire papers from last year and last year, they said it was the left wheel bearing, and this year, they said the same, whereas some times, belle tire, didn't say anything about my wheel bearings and said they were fine.
The car makes a slight roaring noise when I turn left, so it that the left one? my plan was to get a junkyard steering knuckle, left, and install it, and see if the noise goes away, if so, i'm all set, if not, it's not the wheel bearing and it's something else, OR the junkyard steering knuckel also has a bad bearing, in this case, I have 30 days to return it in case the part does work, but if you go to a one where it's on the shelf and isn't a u pull it, the parts generally are ok and working.
