I hear it before,but forgot.Which company makes a good,but reasonably priced front end rebuild kit for our cars?

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PST performance.......$149 it's a poly-grahphite front suspension rebuild kit. they also sell a KYB strut/shock package for $129 also sell graphite bushings galore, and sway bars

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Thanks,do they have a website?

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Chaotic Firehawk can be found wondering NEThirdgen.org and 3rdgen.org

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I'll second that for PST, since I got mine from there. Great quality!

www.p-s-t.com

Hope this helps!

 

Thanks

 

Is this stuff easy to install at home, or should a shop do it? Doug

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Read the manual, get a coil spring compressor, and do most of it yourself. I think they (PST) have videos to help you out. Take the ball joints to a machine shop to press them out/in, and get it aligned as close as you can. Take it to the alignment shop and you're done. Better have a lot of penetrant and a BIG cheater bar!! Good luck..

 

I'd let a pro handle this thing.Better have it done right,then screwing up your car doing to yourself

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Chaotic Firehawk can be found wondering NEThirdgen.org and 3rdgen.org

"A musclecar, by definition, is a powerful and sporty vehicle that must be able to spin its tires at will. The Firebird Trans Am is capable of laying down twin black streaks of rubber several hundred feet long. We wanted to be sure it could, so we did it a half dozen times in the name of automotive science."-MotorTrend

 

Since this is the place maybe someone has had this problem that I am having. I just put in a new front end kit from PST and it's been in there since Jan. Now all the sudden the front end is really squeaky. It's coming from the bushings on the control arms. Why is that and is it going to go away after awhile? Or am I SOL and have to replace them again? Any ideas?

 

Squeaking is more common with polyurethane kits than polygraphite. Greasable bushing designs (or greasing mods that you can make to plain bushing designs) allow you to keep things quiet. For shorter durations a shot of WD-40 or perhaps spray assembly lube will work. Mostly it's the nature of the poly material and it's a nuisance more than anything.

Norm



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Yes it is a newsance...I would rather listen to a newborne baby cry all day than listen the squeak on the frontend. Thanks for the help.

 

So basically, no matter which kit you install, you'll get squeaks? Geez, what a shame...

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The squeaking tells you that you have a performance rebuild

 

I didn't think about it before but won't the WD-40 eat at the polyurethane bushings? Is it safe or is there another way to go about it? Also what's the difference between the Polyurethane and the Polygraphite bushings? Commons sense from the way it sounds would be that one is going to squeak and one isn't. But I could be way off. ????