Lude Generation

Is there anything I should look out for? Apart form separating the ball joints?

Dropping the cross member on your face!

I'll be sure to watch out for that, was going to lower them down with the jack

Get out there tonight and start soaking the nuts in WD40 for the main lower arms (not the 4WS steering arms) Thats if your reusing them. If your not resusing them just drop the whole 4WS motor, lower arms, and steering arms in one lump Getting the 4WS motor off should be easy going as the bolts go straight into the chassis.

A1ex wrote:Is there anything I should look out for?

The idiot getting rid of his 4WS maybe?!

Gayno wrote:

A1ex wrote:Is there anything I should look out for?

The idiot getting rid of his 4WS maybe?!

but it's broken and I don't have a 4ws cluster to diagnose it

Merlin wrote:Get out there tonight and start soaking the nuts in WD40 for the main lower arms (not the 4WS steering arms) Thats if your reusing them. If your not resusing them just drop the whole 4WS motor, lower arms, and steering arms in one lump Getting the 4WS motor off should be easy going as the bolts go straight into the chassis.

Not re-using any of it so can 'just' drop it in one lump then & make sure all the joints are separated

You have to undo the top, bottom, and steering arm balljoints first to get the knuckle out of the way. If you dont remove the kuckle first you risk damaging the balljoints, especailly the top one.

Once you get the knuckles out of the way your left with the 4WS version of these bits to lower off the car:

The 2WS setup




Make sure you have a couple of spare jacks so you can safely lower the 4WS motor.


Have you got brand new nuts and bolts for the main lower arm and toe arms where the attach to the subframe? If not I suggest getting these pronto. You could always fit the old ones and replace with new once they arrive with Honda. When I did my suspension work I only replaced the broken bolts, I quickly found out afterwards that replacing all of them would have been the correct thing to do in the first place.

might be hell of alot easier to get a 4ws bulb, and check the fault

could possibly only need a reset

if its main angle sensor or something, I would say yeah junk it

I was going to get rid to save a few lbs anyway to be hoest so not overly concerned with fixing it.

As for bolts, I have the full set from cebul which are in very good condition so would hope they'd be ok