> The silent bloc on the drivers side of my car is sticking up from the drop arm
> about 1/8-1/4". It appears to have come up when I pulled the steering. It has
> a nyloc on it but will not pull all the way down. Wrenching both manually and
> with an air wrench accomplishes nothing. Is this normal.
Check whether the link & rubber will slide up and down on the post. If it
slides easily, then the silentbloc is failed and should probably be replaced.
The rubber is supposed to be bonded to the post.
It's normal for the post to not be pulled down by the nut, instead the end of
the post is a taper fit into the drop arm.
I got annoyed enough at short-lived silentblocs that I replaced mine with the
brass/stainless units from BFE. Took some fettling to make them fit to suit me,
but with the grease zerks I added, they should last forever. Probably reduced
steering effort slightly too, since they don't have to distort when you turn the
wheel like the silentblocs do.
Randall
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