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I have had a problem with previously replaced, front end parts on one of my vehicles exactly once. I have an 01 Durango, going on 12 years. We've put over 100k on it ourselves. When I bought it 3 of 4 ball joints were shot. I had it all of 3 days before I replaced them. The uppers had been...

Again for newer cars I've seen some pure crap from moog. I've been able to find plenty of moog for the older cars made "back then" before they turned to crap. And they've made gazillions of front end parts. Even back then you're bound to find a bad part here or there. And "abodyjoe" what was...

As old as these cars are id still take moog. There's bound to be old stock available somewhere. Next would be trw.

and Id rebuild teh original.... these days everyone seems afraid of control arm bushings.... theyre easy. I wish I still did alignments. my peeled away Michelins on my truck bear that out.... I had a highly recommended shop align it and my 70k mile Michelins (over $600 for a pair) are almost to...

oh yes they did. My Dad had a 76 Feather duster, had 9" drum brakes all the way around. and 4" bolt pattern. manual brakes to boot, no power booster. /6, 3 speed on the floor, manual steering even. I have (had?) a book of all the TSBs for 1976 and if I'm remembering right there was something...

I know you're wanting to get away from that but somewhere on one of the forums (I forget which) I saw an original manual box for free, if you pick up or just pay shipping. As for borgenson Ive only ever used their steering shaft components. I've used the shaft they sell for the D/W trucks and I...

Check eBay, rock auto

Looks like bottom of the barrel cheapest grade Monroe shocks. Not worth the Price of the box they come in

I've always had the best luck with Gabriel shocks

Whatever color you want to make it would work fine.

I do so much front end work at work that my 3 lb hand sledge has become the first thing I grab after the fasteners are off. these days it's mostly 3/4 and 1 ton Ford vans at work.....

Buy NOTHING from harbor freight

Years ago I was working on (gasp) an f body (no, not a fire chicken, and though they're mistaken for them, certainly not a nova.... ) I went to a local body shop and they had a rack of red books, in each was all the frame charts for common vehicles of a given year. He let me borrow it, "keep it...

"max caster"isn't the end all be all . You have to consider the difference between reading in each side vs the other. ("cross" camber and ""cross caster") you want the camber reading to be close on one side to what it is on the other, and you want the caster the same way. If a car pulls one way...

Check out borgenson (sp) they have the double-d shaft and u joints to build any configuration you'd want I had to build a shaft for my 96, 4wd Dakota a few years ago when the original bound up and oem was NLA, and every one in the junkyard if anything was missing (sold already) it was that.

I've installed lots of poly bushings and never had a squeak problem out of them

I used to be " that guy" 15 years ago when I worked at the alignment shop. It aggravates me nowadays not having Access to an alignment rack that I can do my own on... And I am having a hard time finding anyone worth a $#1t.. all the guys I'd trust are either retired or Dead the last few of...

I figured they'd come up with some way to add electric PS to an older car.... But with my experience with it in my job, on cars and trucks equipped that way from the factory, I have to say "no thanks". Give me the old pump, belt and hoses.....please.

get a helper. One of you get in the car and the other stand by the side of the car by the front wheels. Person in the car put into reverse (Don't give it any gas) and coast backwards a few feet. Hit the brake. Repeat. Then do the same a couple times going forwards. Have observer watch to see if...

when I did my Volare (yeah I know, not an A body) I made my own. Yeah, it was 10+ years ago I know... but Id be surprised if I had $20 and 1/2 a day into the whole deal.

I miss those days. I used to have the same.

Also I have a 99 Dakota that pulled horribly to the right when I initially drove it home upon buying it (bought from private seller) n the glove box was every receipt for anything ever done or bought for that truck from 2002-2019 which was when I got it. As bad as that thing pulled, there were...

I wish I was still doing alignments, back when I was last doing so in early 2000s, the other guy we had doing so was 500+ lb and hands that barely stuck out past his blubber, he wanted all the minivan alignments which were mostly "toe and go" because they didn't have any means to set caster and...

I had the springs on my B body 78 Sport Fury rearched. Within a year they were worse sagged than I started out with. I should have had them add a leaf at the same time.