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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks!
In this video, we're going to show you front sway bar link replacement. This is a 2003 Honda Civic, it's pretty much the same for a 2001 to 2005 Civic, as well as some other Honda vehicles. We show you on the driver side, but the passenger side is the exact same procedure, and if one side is broken on your car, most likely replacing the other side is a good idea as well.
Items you'll need include new stabilizer link or links from 1AAuto.com, 14mm wrench, a 19mm socket and breaker bar or tire iron, 5mm hex bit, ratchet and extension, and, as you'll see, we used a reciprocating saw, so you might find that you'll need one too.
We'll remove the front wheel, held on by four 19mm lug nuts. If you have a different style hubcap you'll need to remove that, but just use a breaker bar or your tire iron and loosen the lug nuts while the tire is on the ground. Now raise and support the vehicle. Now remove the lug nuts the rest of the way, and the wheel and tire.
For this repair, you want to make sure that you have your vehicle level. You need to raise up the front of the vehicle and support both sides, and you can turn the wheel. Your link is right here.
First thing we're going to do is just use a wire brush and some penetrating oil to try and clean off these threads as much as we can to make it easier to get apart. 14mm wrench, put it on here, and turn counterclockwise. It looks like this is already spinning, so 5mm hex socket. You may want to make sure that your bit's in there, hammer 'til you drive it in.
We've gotten the bottom one loosened up, put the wrench on the top one, and then we'll do the same thing, we'll drive the 5mm hex socket in. We've got it loosened up, and what's happened is what happens a lot on these. These lock-nuts actually bind up more and more as you get them off, and they get harder and harder, and then the 5mm hex strips out. What most shops do is they don't even bother with the nuts, they just cut these off right from the beginning.
Using a torch can be intimidating, so we're going to just show you how to use a reciprocating saw. We've got a set of locking pliers on there just to hold it in place a little bit. Now we'll just cut it off. Now the upper one, again, holding it with my locking pliers.
Here's the new part from 1A Auto. I like this design a little better since it has the hex on the end, but also has bolt head, so you can hold it with a wrench on the backside. We'll go and install that.
Put it in and start the nut on the backside. Put the bottom into the control arm, thread your nut on, and the technical spec on these is 29 foot-pounds. It's easy enough to get a torque wrench on this one, but getting a torque wrench on the inner one is pretty difficult.
Put your wheel back in place, start your lug nuts, we'll tighten them preliminarily, and then torque them when the vehicle's back down on the ground. Then tighten your lug nuts, 80 foot-pounds and just cross in the pattern.
Any time you do work on your brakes, make sure you pump the pedal. Get a nice firm pedal before you test drive the vehicle.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks!
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the lower control arm on the front of this 2003 Honda Civic, same for 2001 to 2005. We show you the driver side, but the passenger side is the same procedure. You'll need a new control arm from 1AAuto.com, and if you're going to replace one side, you might as well replace both. We do sell them as a pair. 12 to 22 millimeter sockets and wrenches with ratchets and extensions, 5 millimeter hex socket, flat-blade screwdriver, large size, breaker bar or tire iron, flex joint, hammer with a small, large, and a rubber mallet, pry bar, locking and needle-nose pliers, jack and jack stands, wire brush, penetrating oil, and we needed a reciprocating saw on ours, because we ran into an issue with the stabilizer link. You may or may not need that for yours.
Remove the front wheel, held on by four 19 millimeter lug nuts. If you have a different style hubcap, you'll need to remove that, but just use a breaker bar or your tire iron, and just loosen the lug nuts while the tire is on the ground. Now raise and support the vehicle. Now remove the lug nuts the rest of the way, and the wheel and tire.
For this repair, you want to make sure that you have your vehicle level. You need to support, you need to raise up the front of the vehicle and support both sides. You can turn the wheel and your link is right here. First thing we're going to do is just use a wire brush and some penetrating oil and try to clean off these threads as much as we can to make it easier to get it apart.
14 millimeter wrench, put it on here and turn counterclockwise. Looks like this is already spinning, so use a 5 millimeter hex socket. Ideally, at this point, the nut to the lower stabilizer link comes off, and you can just separate the stabilizer link from the control arm. Ours was much more difficult, and we wound up having to cut it off, and then we ended up replacing the whole stabilizer link. If you do that, we do sell the stabilizer link at 1A Auto as well.
Lower control arm is held on. There's a nut here. You have to remove a cotter pin, and then there's a bolt here and a bolt up through here. We'll start by removing the cotter pin here. This is the pin, you just grab ahold of the side, pull it out, and then pull the pin out. To remove this lower ball joint nut, it's 17 millimeter. Just remove it that much for now.
19 millimeter wrench, put it on, then use a bigger, I'm using a 20 millimeter wrench. Lock it in to give myself a little extra leverage. That one loosened up, loosen this one up, and, again, it's a 19 millimeter. Now I'm just going to loosen these bolts up until they're about ready to come out. Just going to try and break the ball joint free, and usually a few good hits from a good sized hammer does the job. We're free here, the bolts are ready to come out. Leave that one out, should be able to kind of move it around, sometimes you might hit it a little bit, but line it up. This bolt'll come out. Okay, remove this nut the rest of the way.
Original part from the vehicle, and the rubber bushing in this one is pretty dried out and cracked. The part from 1A Auto, exactly the same, it's going to go in there, obviously brand new bushings. All the right mounting points, fix you up.
Reinstall, kind of up into place. Ball joint on, and just put your nut on. Push it into place to make sure the font mount is going in, and then push the rear mount in. I stick my body against the rotor, lift up, and lock your bolt in place.
We've got our ball joint and nut on, we've got that, the rear bolt in, so we've just got to get this one. We'll try using a rubber mallet at first, just so we don't harm our new finish. Then once you get it in, lock it so you can get the bolt in. You can take a long screwdriver and pull on it, try and get it lined up so the bolt will go right up and in through. Sometimes you'll have to push on it here to get the bolt all the way in.
Now we're going to tighten up the 19 millimeter bolts preliminarily. In order to hold the ball joint in place while you tighten it up, you'll want to use a jack, lift the control arm up into place a little bit. Tap the control arm, get the knuckle to sit down in. Tighten this to 43 foot-pounds. Try to put your pin in, if necessary, tighten a little further to open up the hole. Need to tap it over here.
Okay, in order to tighten the two 19 millimeter bolts, you want to simulate ride position, so support the suspension. Get that jacked up so the weight's just off the lift, and we're going to torque these to 61 foot-pounds.
Used a couple extra pounds, because I had a flex joint on that one. Reconnect your stabilizer link. Again, we sell new ones at 1AAuto.com. Put the nut on and tighten it up. It's easy enough to get a torque wrench on this one, but getting a torque wrench on the inner one is pretty difficult.
Put your wheel back in place. Start your lug nuts, we'll tighten them preliminarily, and then torque them when the vehicle is back down on the ground. Tighten your lug nuts 80 foot-pounds, and just cross in the pattern.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks!
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the outer tie rod. This is a 2003 Honda Civic. It's the same for the 2001 to 2005 Honda Civic, as well as a couple of other Honda models. We show you this on the driver side, but the passenger side is the same procedure. Items you'll need include a new outer tie rod or tie rods from 1AAuto.com, 17mm to 24mm sockets, wrenches and ratchet, a torque wrench, breaker bar or tire iron, small hammer, needle nose pliers, and some penetrating oil.
Remove the front wheel held on by 19mm lug nuts. If you have a different style hubcap, you'll need to remove that. Just use a breaker bar or your tire iron and loosen your lug nuts while the tire is on the ground. Raise and support the vehicle. Now, remove the rest of the lug nuts the rest of the way, and the wheel and tire.
The outer tie rod is right here; 17mm nuts hold it in here. Remove the cotter pin. Then there's a 21mm lock nut, which we're going to use a nice 21mm wrench. As you're looking at it, you're turning it clockwise. We're just going to turn that about a quarter of a turn. If, when you turn this lock nut, you also turn the inner tire rod, just make note of it so that you can turn it back for the same amount, just so that you can get yourself in a good preliminary alignment. You will want to have your vehicle aligned after you do this repair.
Remove the cotter pin. Normally, the pin should drive out easily, but it's giving us a hard time. We're going to use a little bit of penetrating oil. Let it sit for a bit. You may have to use a set of these cutting pliers. We really get half of the cotter pin off. A lot of times, if you've got it off and pretty well damaged, you can just pull the nut off and it will shear it right off as it comes off. Give the steering knuckle a few good taps with the hammer to break the tie rod free. Now, you can just take your tie rod right off.
Old part from the vehicle, new tie rod in from 1A Auto. You can see it's exactly the same. Take the castle nut off. New part comes with a new lock nut and a cotter pin. If you like, you can grab hold of your inner tie rod, free up your existing lock nut, and take it off. Not necessary though if you can put the new tie rod on and use the existing lock nut that's on there already. Put the tie rod in. It should go right around to about where it was.
Reinstall your tie rod. Put the castle nut on. Tighten the castle nut to 32-ft/lbs. Then tighten it any more you need to get the cotter pin through the hole in the tie rod. I can see the hole there. Probably need to go another 16th of a turn. Insert the cotter pin.
Use a pair of piers and bend it over. Appropriate size wrench to hold the tie rod; in this case, it's an 18mm. Then 24mm to get our lock nut on the back. Tighten it up.
Put your wheel back in place. Start your lug nuts. We'll tighten them preliminarily and then torque them when the vehicle is back down on the ground. Tighten your lug nuts 80-ft lbs and just cross in the pattern.
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