Re: Genaral info 95 Camry

<johngdole@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> So what did you end up doing with the struts? And were those
> halfshafts rebuilt?

Don't want to steal the thread from Johnny, but yes - shafts were rebuilts

from Autozone.

Struts - I ended up getting Gabriels Ultra for four corners. Got also stut

mounts, but not used them - original were good enough. I had two brokent 
coil springs on the fronts. It was hard to notice because the springs
where 
missing only about 3/4 of the bottom turn. I went to the junkyard and got 
springs from a 1996 camry with "only" 150k miles, so they are "like new" 
condition compared to my original ones with 246k miles behind them :-) The

springs on the rear struts were good so I left them in place. All 4
springs 
got sanded and wire brushed, painted with rust oleum and installed with
new 
Ganriel Ultra struts. Suprisingly, original front struts, when removed
from 
vehicle had the feel of new struts - the rod was moving normally with no 
pinching or any abnormality. The strut was also fully charged with
pressure 
pu****ng rod up. This is amazing considering these were original toyota 
struts which made 246k miles!!! The ones on the rear were pretty bad. Left

side seems to loose the nitrogen charge, the rod was traveling with normal

resistance but pushed down did not bounce back up. The right side was 
completely dead and leaking. The rod was traveling without resistance, so
I 
did not have the right strut one at all there.

In the process I had a hard time taking off the sway bar links on the rear

struts. Had to cut off the nuts from the links, somebody before me tighten

them too much? Working without torque wrench, maybe? I hate when this 
happens... Need to replace these next time I will have a chance. For now
the 
link small ball joint in the rubber is beaten up pretty badly, but I have 
put them back on the car since I wanted to finish the job that day and did

not have the spares.

Ride has improved a lot, but I am still having strange feeling of the car 
back sways to the right when I cross the rough railroad crossing or hit 
heavy bump in the road. Not sure what is it, since the struts are new and 
good. All of this behaviour I was blaming for the bad strut on the rear 
right wheel, but something is still bad there... Maybe the links need to
be 
replaced, but I would not think they would do so much to the suspension...