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Twilightoptics

I've toasted 3 idler arms in 3000miles.

Tie rods/Center link DO check out okay.
Ball joints are good.

What gives?

chevymad · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:

What vehicle? If you're that hard on them you might want to step up to the Napa Chassis line. They re-engineer all the suspension parts to be much tougher then stock.

Dewey316 · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject:

what part of the idler is failing?

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

The joint on the arm.

The Maro.

chevymad · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

All I can think of is crap arms. Wonder which kind of joint your arm has? The crimped style are pretty crappy. I've gone through exactly 1 arm in 280k miles.

brandyland · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject:

Like beer?
Down the hatch

That could be considered to be a callosal waste of beer!

Is nothing sacred anymore?

Dewey316 · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject:

the only other thing I could think of, is that your centerlink is somehow putting some weird up/down force on it, and causing it to wear abnormally. But I would think to do that, you would have to have things pretty jacked up to get the centerlink that far off.

91RSVert · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:58 am Post subject:

On my v6 one(havent checked v Cool

, you could adjust the height of it. My only guess is, its getting mounted to high, or to low, and its binding the joint. But IMO, that would cause funky steering also.

blue89 · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:50 am Post subject:

Maybe your alignment is off and its causing excessive pressure on the idler? Did you make sure the level of the idler matched the steering arm?

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: