stern adjustable control arm bushings repair

[erobleme]

Hi there. dose any body now how to restore the bushings or ball joints, and if there is a video how to fix'em?

[koolade9]

Hi there. dose any body now how to restore the bushings or ball joints, and if there is a video how to fix'em?

Wow! You're the first I've heard who's worn them out... How many miles do you have on them? Were the bushings torqued under load at ride-height their entire life?

I beleive the ball joints can come out after removing the snap-ring. I think the rear bushings need to be pressed out (new ones pressed in). Let me know how it goes...when I talked to stern a few months ago, they said no-one had ever bought/needed a re-freshening kit yet. Let us know how it goes [up]

[erobleme]

thanks for the replay Koolade9, The thing is that I don't now if is the ball joint or the bushings, but what I notice is a "kliking noise" since I got'em put on. So I need to chek'em out and I was watching some videos on Youtube to how to check'em to see if the ball joint is busted. but as soon I'll get'em check, I will post the results. Thanks again.

[koolade9]

if you don't already have hella-miles on em, it's probably not the bushing... if you're getting issues, it can be a variety of things causing a clunk...

[erobleme]

Hi koolade9
I check the arms and I notice that onthe driver side the rear arm, the bushing is like 1/16 out of the arm compared to the front one and the ones on the passenger side and it looks like is hiting the mount. I 'm going to post a video on youtube soon so you can see it and see if it was a wrong instalation or a defective one.

[erobleme]

vidoes: top one is the damage one ( I think)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGczq0fQUxE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5Tm781Hss

[belinko]

Yeah, let us know how you proceed.

I've had a whine on the driver's side after a couple of months from the date of installation. Now I just hear some weird noise at full lock. It might be completely unrelated.

I'm more concerned about the spherical joint not being sealed.

[Mike@PureMS]

vidoes: top one is the damage one ( I think)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGczq0fQUxE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5Tm781Hss

Get in touch with the shop you bought them from. That will be fixed under warranty.

[erobleme]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXW4P9rIDU


this is a vetter video of the problem!

[A4SoftWalker]

Yeah that seems like a bad bushing there. What have u done to contact Stern??? That sure does look like it can be covered.

[aoei74]

I have a clicking sound also, it's roughly a little over a year old since installation of the arms. Did you find a solution for this?

[erobleme]

I contacted JHMotorsports (seller) and they toll me to send them to Purems.com for warranty!

[koolade9]

Yeah, let us know how you proceed.

I've had a whine on the driver's side after a couple of months from the date of installation. Now I just hear some weird noise at full lock. It might be completely unrelated.

I'm more concerned about the spherical joint not being sealed.

There's a "clunk" at full lock that can occur for a variety of reasons (power steering, top strut nut, front swaybar, broken control arm bushings), but if you're referring to a bit of a quick groan when at full lock, I had this when my sterns were on my A4 after about a year or so and 25k miles. When I pulled them off to move them to the RS, the groan disappeared, and made me question if there was material near the ball joint area causing this. It can get kinda dirty on the exposed ball-joint ends and I try to clean them whenever I have the wheels off... Just my $.02 [up]

[mysman]

Looks like the OEM bushing is spinning in the aluminum arm. Did they send you a new arm?

[aoei74]

I contacted JHMotorsports (seller) and they toll me to send them to Purems.com for warranty!

In the end what happened? I'm still trying to get mine warrantied. Any luck on your part? let me know please, thanks!