Hello TGO,Recently on My 84 Camaro i have beening hearing a knocking noise that keeped on coming from my front suspension. This always happen when i braked, turned, etc. When i got my camaro from my father he told me that he only replace the lower control bushing in the front but he is not sure if he put them right, and that was it.My question what would you recommed to change in my camaro?I was thinking of changing the ball joints, center link, shocks, tie rod, sway bars, bushing, etcIf i change all of this parts will it be a tough job for me since i am a 20 year old kid and my knowlegde on suspension is limited.Please can someone give me some ideas on what to do.Also i do have some tools to do the job but i am not sure if they will help out I appriciate it for your help

 

I'm in the same boat...1986 camaro that makes the same sound...thinking it's time to redo the entire front suspension. Wish there was a step by step process online for our cars. I'm no mechanic, but can follow directions well.

Hopefully, some one will chime in...

 

sounds like the balljoints need to be replaced. i'm 26 and started working on my car when i was 18/19 with no experience and nothing more than the basic tools, theese cars are very easy to learn how to work on. my guess is that if the front bushings weren't in correctly they would probably be loose and the car would be scary as hell to drive, so they're probably ok.....

 

O okay. So that's is were I am gonna start at with the front ball joints. Do you know if they have to be press out or can you do it easily with a hammer or something else. In fact my camaro drives alrite just the knocking noise that I am worry about.
I did replace the idle arm a while back, the old one way turning freely and that elimated one thing off the list.
Can anyone let me know if to replace the ball joints are easy or kinda hard.
Thanks

 

theres been several posts on this just recently. try a search.

 

Check the stickies at the top of the page as well as the following link for info that will be helpful:

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/susp...nsion-how.html

JamesC

 

you can install/remove with a BFH. but i don't recomend it, after doing it myself... autozone will loan you most tools you need for free

 

Thanks James for posting the link I read it and found it very helpful. Well to be honest it showed me more then what knew of.
Thanks everyone for the help I appriciate it
Valentin