New Upper Wishbone 1998 1999 2000 2001 CG Accord Coupe

[Laird_Scooby]

2 minutes ago, hughezee said:

if the arm is pushed up from the lower arm pushing the knuckle into the upper arm,

That was going to be my #5 method Stu but i left it out as you're borderline lifting the car. Good point about the bushes too!

[hughezee]

1 minute ago, Laird_Scooby said:

That was going to be my #5 method Stu but i left it out as you're borderline lifting the car. Good point about the bushes too!

Edwin and others had knocking or squeaking noises after the install of upper arms, but you can leave them a little loose and tighten them with a ring spanner when the car is down, providing the cars not lowered though 😮

[welland99]

It's all done now 😀 ...... but not without a couple of minor hitches along the way.  I'll share details later, got a couple of urgent things to do now.  

[welland99]

Hi All, 

so this saga comes to a happy ending.  The moral of the tale is to buy blueprint suspension parts, not Q-drive.  The attached pic is the as-fitted blueprint arm.  

As Dave suggested, before fitting either of the new arms, I just tried them in the kuckle socket before removing the Q-Drive arm with the stripped threads.  It was plain to see that the Blueprint one allowed more of the spigot through the hole than the Q-Drive one, so the decision was made to fit Blueprint  

This brings me to schoolboy error (1):

Having considered the possibility of fitting the wrong arm (because I had two new ones), I thought I had fitted the correct one.   However, after screwing in the bush bolts, I discovered that I had in fact fitted Q-Drive (2) instead of Blueprint (1).  So I lost time with removing that one.  

Schoolboy error 2.

When I came to refit the wheel, only three wheel nuts could be found.   I searched high and low for 15 minutes, but it didn't turn up. Luckily, I had some spare nuts, so i proceeded to fit one.  I later discoverd the missing wheel nut stuck to the outside of my magnetic tray.  I think that I must have put the dish down next to the wheel nuts and one became attached to the magnet under the  in the dish.  Doh!

[Laird_Scooby]

Glad to hear you've got it all done! Reckon you're allowed a couple of schoolboy errors after the grief you've had with this one!

[welland99]

On 11/20/2019 at 1:39 PM, Laird_Scooby said:

#4 - Use an open-ended spanner (10mm i think is the thread size so a 10mm open-ender) as packing to pull the taper in with the Nyloc, slacken the nut half a turn, remove the open-ender and then tighten the Nyloc.

This worked perfectly for me.  😉

[hughezee]

 Glad to hear you've got it sorted fella, can't go wrong with blueprint stuff, quality IMO 👍

[PTR200S]

20 hours ago, hughezee said:

 Glad to hear you've got it sorted fella, can't go wrong with blueprint stuff, quality IMO 👍

Agreed, got some good stuff from them that actually fits properly !!!

[Laird_Scooby]

5 minutes ago, PTR200S said:

Agreed, got some good stuff from them that actually fits properly !!!

I've been using it 25+ years, first sold to me by a specialist Japanese motor factors as being OE quality but at a sensible price. Countless parts later i've no reason to argue!