Wow, well done! Just saw your post. Could've helped you a lot with those beers:D.

You should have come down. The beer supply was not an issue. The bigger issue was finding all the roaming 18mm and 22mm sockets


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Got her out for a decent drive today before leaving for a 900 mile road trip tomorrow morning. DAMN it feels like a totally different car! I can not believe I waited till it got this bad to fix it back to factory condition. Switched back to the studded tires so I know the road trip won't be quite as fun as possible but can not wait to get her up to speed on I-84!

Did you do the rear ball joints when you did the work on the rear or just the upper arms and lower control arm bushings?

I really need to do my rear ball joints, I'm sure. I am getting the itch to do mine, I'm sure they are beat at 175,000 miles.

EVERY BUSHING AND BALL JOINT I COULD FIND WAS REPLACED! So Rear ball joints on the spindle carrier, integral links, LOWER control (swing) arm bushings, both upper control arms, sway bar end links. Front torque arm bushings, ball joints, lower control arms, sway bar end links. The tie rod ends were in perfect shape as they were replaced 18 months ago (approx 10k miles).

Thank you for the reply. I have also done the complete front ball joints, thrust arms and control arms and upper arms on the rear were replaced with Hard Race adjustable arms and toe links but need to replace the integral links and ball joints. Did you do the rear ball joints in the car and what mobile press did you use?

I used a BFH (Big Fu***ng Hammer) for removal as pressing without the BMW specific tool proved to be futile. Absolutely douched everything in PB Blaster then used a torch to heat around the ball joint. Just swing for the fences and they popped out. I used the autozone 23 piece press kit to put the new one in. I froze all my bushings and ball joints in my -10 deep freezer and coated everything in copper anti seize. Everything went fairly amazing


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Copper anti-seize.... [emoji2959]

Why didn't I think of that?

If you had said that before I did mine I would have bought you beer and a pork sandwich (which over here is cost more than gold) just for the idea..[emoji1787]

Glad everything came together for you easier than mine!!

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I have found VERY few situations where painting copper anti seize on everything in site is a bad idea (yes I know not to coat rotor or contact surface of pads with the stuff) but in most every other situation it makes a bit of a mess but when you come back to it later... I keep like 3 bottles of the stuff spread out in all corners of my garage so it is always at arms reach


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I now have it added to my list to order from Big PX land[emoji106]

Here lately I seem to be reading things on here and then having whatever I read about happen to my X...

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