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Gly
08-01-2007, 06:15 AM
anyone know much about these?

my cusco vancanza coil over have these,

anyway they've started to make alot or clicking/grinding noise when moving slow and turning hard, (yes its the shocks not something else)

so ill be taking the fronts out of my car and putting my koni's adjustables back
in front for a little while....

does anyone know of the pillow ball be repaired/replaced?
how hard of a job would this be to do?

would i have to get oem parts or will this be a sort of off the shelf item bits i could get to repair this?

Thanks in advance.
Rally205
09-01-2007, 09:45 AM
They should be replaceable but you need to find the correct bearing. Try an engineering supply company. Getting the right size shouldn't be a problem but getting the correct load rating is the most important bit. You want something with about a 20000lbs load rating.

They are usually held in by a circlip underneath. Remove the circlip and knock the bearing out and replace it.

p.s. They are more commonly known as spherical bearings.
Gly
10-01-2007, 06:44 AM
thanks alot,
got a job to do this weekend then :P,

so anything 20000lbs or better, will do the job?...
y such a high load rating?
Rally205
10-01-2007, 09:32 AM
Imagine how much force is placed on it when you are cornering at high speed or crashing over bumps or potholes. You don't want the strut insert popping through your bonnet do you?/rally
Gly
10-01-2007, 10:00 AM
good point,
thanks for the advice...
will get them apart and see what i can find.
Gly
11-01-2007, 06:19 AM
hey i was doing some searching for bearings

whats 20000lbs in kN's?

http://www.astbearings.com/p-brng-spb-sos-metric.php
mpau009
11-01-2007, 07:02 AM
whats 20000lbs in kN's


according to some website,

To convert kiloNewtons to pounds, multiply kN by 224.82 (4.448 kiloNewtons equals 1000 pounds)

so by my maths thats like 89kN
psbarham
11-01-2007, 07:18 PM
according to some website,

To convert kiloNewtons to pounds, multiply kN by 224.82 (4.448 kiloNewtons equals 1000 pounds)

so by my maths thats like 89kN
wrong , its 88.964kn/pan
i have a quite handy conversion progrm which will convert allsorts of things (mass/ torque / volume etc ) into another unit of measurement if anyones interested i will zip it up and post it here
Gly
12-01-2007, 06:58 AM
yep im keen :P
psbarham
12-01-2007, 10:31 AM
yep im keen :P
well here ya go