+1

 

I took off the wheel, lateral links, radius arm, and the swaybar end link. The hub and CV axle are fine. Subframe is unbent. The lateral links are, well, just look at the picture. The swaybar endlink is a little crooked, probably just replace both and the swaybar (22mm sounds good to me). The radius arm is marginally torqued and will need replacing. And the long *** bolt the lateral links attach with, yeah, need one of those.

 

yea i would replace the hub too
yesterday night we replaced the same stuff u took off on our rally car at service the hub "looked fine" but it was bent just giving u a idea of what your going to see

 

by radius arm, do you mean trailing arm, the longest and largest of the suspension links, that travels lengthwise on the car?

yeah definately replace that, also the forward bracket for the trailing arm, the hub, the knuckle and prolly the strut too.

since you've decided to do this stuff yourself, don't be stingy, if you have any doubt about the part, replace it.

 

Trailing arm, radius arm, same thing in my head. But yeah, it's getting replaced. I don't intend on doing a half-assed job. As far as the hub is concerned, I broke out with a measuring tape (incremented in millimeters) and verified an assload of measurement between the left and right hubs, all lined up. I'm gonna triple check tomorrow.

 

just remember what you said yourself "curbs are really hard"

I don't care what measurements you make, that hub & bearing aren't meant to hit curbs with enough force to make curly fries out of your lateral links.

plus the knuckle that holds it is a big dumb block of iron, hit it hard enough and the mounting points will be off, then replacing all the suspension links is for nothing.

 

ebrakes are bad for your diff's among other things as you can see

oh well another sti taking n00b abuse
edgar,

 

Sounds like an excuse to upgrade to the pink lateral link set.

Gonna spend the change anyways....up it a bit and get some purdy pink bits.

 

true that.....my ebrake is strickly for parking....and the off chance my brakes fail. hence the word emergency.

AWD systems do not agree with ricer ebrake drifting like honda do.

 

why get pink links? they're not any stronger....

 

who cares...they're hot.

It's an upgrade for my car...heee.heee.

 

i thought the center diff disengage on ebrake on a STi, no?

 

how is it an upgrade if it's the same thing? just different colors? better off buying a 4 dollar can of spray paint and paint the stock ones...

 

I reiterate......pink is the SEX!!!!!!.

but yes...I suppose spray paint that would chip all to hell would work just fine.



THE SEX!!!!!!! DAMN IT.


oh....and to answer your question more specifically. The STI lateral links are the same except for one thing...they come with rubber bushings. The pink ones come with spherical joints.

 

UH... no!
edgar,