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Old 10-27-2012, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by SlickGT1 View Post
Now, I didnt hear you say if you did all this with the air out of the springs.

Could be alignment. But you would feel pulls and tugs in the dry too.

Do the tie rod. Get aligned. See if issue is better.
**UPDATE**Plenty of pics

I made an error earlier, it was not a bad tie rod, it was a bad driver side sway bar link.


So this morning it took off all of the tires again but this time I let the air out of the rear air bags.

I have pics below and almost everything looks good.

Driver side rear subframe bushes looks and feel good.
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driver side rear control arm looks good. no play.
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The other end of the driver side rear control arm looks equally good. no play.
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No play here.
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the other driver side rear sub frame bushes looks good.
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Solid as a rock
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No Issues here.
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No issues here
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No issues here
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Now here we have an issue!!! This is on the rear passenger side. Besides for visually looking bad, I was also able to easily move the lower half of the rotor in and out (away from me and towards me). What is this part and is it possible to change just the bushing opposed to the entire part? Is there a DIY for it?
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No this cant be good. Both rear tires tilt in when the air bags are deflated. I'm assuming this is not normal.
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Last edited by mrathell; 10-27-2012 at 05:09 PM.
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