Clicking when wiggling wheel
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Clicking when wiggling wheel
When I wiggle the front wheel for my 87 NA side to side (3 and 9) everything looks tight. When I wiggle the wheel top to bottom (Midnight and noon), it makes a clicking noise but barely moves. How can I tell if the hub or ball joint is bad? What’s the best way to test the ball joint itself?
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Thanks. I guess my more familiar with doing this on my other car which requires the whole assembly to be replaced. Should I just replace both bearings and the ball joint while I’m there? The tie rods seem to be ok (ie no side to side movement).
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well technically your supposed to replace the whole hub when the bearings go bad but it they can easily be replaced you just have to take a file a grind down alittle race to push the old bearings out. i'd replace the ball joints first and see if that helps, no sense in doing that much work for nothing,
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