How to replace the lower control arm assembly on a 2010-2014 Ford Taurus. Other years may be similar. Sway Bar End Link Replacement video: • 2010-2014 Taurus Sway ...
Absolutely a great video. Really shows some of the struggles there are with working on cars. No sugar coating or anything. It does suck sometimes. You sir just gained a sub.
You’re the man!! When I saw you had a video on this, I was like “YES” lol. The balljoint on mine really put up a good fight, had to buy 2 different pairs of vise grips to get it done
Those ball joints, anymore I just remove the whole knuckle and cut them off with an angle grinder. It tends to be faster, surprisingly. If you're curious, I recently posted a video of this job on an Explorer where I removed the knuckle, and it's basically the exact same procedure as the Taurus.
Thank you! This one had around 200k on it. I replaced the water pump on this exact car about a year and 15k miles prior to this. I do have a video on how to do that as well, and another, hopefully better, video coming in the next few weeks. Going to be doing a water pump on an Explorer soon, which is pretty much exactly the same since the Taurus and Explorer of this year range are built on the same platform.
Ugh they said i have to have all 4 of mine replaced. I am not looking forward to it. If only i had a car lift. Also to show someone that they need to be replaced am i able to just lift up a side ans wiggle the tire while its parked?
Thank you! I probably did hurt myself at some point during this job, happens on pretty much every job so I don't even pay attention to it anymore. I typically measure jobs not in work done, but blood lost. Nothing catastrophic though so that's always good.
Are these moog arms or are they made by parts avatar? I’ve just replaced all suspension components on my 2015 taurus SEL, except for front control arms & corresponding bushings. I’m trying to buy control arms that include a grease fitting for the ball joint
I like to keep it real in my videos 🤣 Mechanic work isn't always as easy as a lot of how to videos make it look. While filming my 7.3 Power Stroke oil cooler reseal video, I knocked a container of oil on the floor, and the test rig I set up to pressure test it blew apart. I decided to leave those in there 🤣
Nice my ratcheting wrenches will make quick work of taking off that ball joint nut. I have a feeling I’ll be getting the same control arms tho from partsavatar…
Best of luck to you. If you start having issues with that nut like I did in this video, I have a different video of this same job on an Explorer, which is nearly identical, where I went about the process in a different manner.
@@darkhorseautoanddiesel thanks buddy. I did the front suspension on the Taurus X we have a couple years ago. So I basically had the control arm off just didn’t touch the ball joint nut. We’ll see how it goes. Hopefully it works out. Should be easier than the new coil over assembly I did. That was a lot of small things making a simple job 5hrs for 1 side lol. Other side was done in like an hour and a half tho.
🤣 it wasn't actually 8 hours, more like 1.5, but the threads were a bit rusty, and the nut got stuck, bad. I had to use a nut splitter and destroy it to get it off.
Mine literally turned into a 6 delay on this one nut...vice grips wouldn't hold it no matter how tight. Had to use a grinder on the bottoms to get enough grip to hold it. About to start the other side, hope I find a better way this time.
9:45, if you forget to measure how far hub to fender, just grab a vertical leveler and a jack and make sure the rotors are leveled so they're sitting straight up and angled.
I would have loved to use a ratchet there. Unfortunately it won't fit. The clearance between the top of the stud and the axle shaft is too small to get one in there.
Just had my front lower control arms replaced on 07 taurus, and now a few months later the driver side control arm is popping like a drumset when i turn right at slow speeds. My mechanic is saying its a bad part. I get a really bad feeling from the guy, though. I feel like he installed it wrong to punish me for buying my own parts and not paying him triple the retail price for parts.
Are you sure it’s not a CV axle going out?? They like to pop repeatedly when going out…granted mine is a 2015, I have a singular popping sound from from front ball joints needing replaced, but it only occurs when I go from drive to reverse, and it’s a one time pop..if it were popping multiple times. I’d be looking at the CV’s…although if you’ve for sure verified that it’s your control arm…he would have had to do something really dumb..like insufficiently torquing the c-arm bushing hardware. And or, torquing the control arm bushings down when suspension is at full droop/unloaded.
@Crabtronics yeah i had another mechanic look at it while he was doing some other work, he said its the control arm. I thought it might be CV as well so i squirt some grease on the control arm bushing thats clicking and it stopped for a few days. I dont think he did something stupid. I think he did something malicious. He wanted me to pay 750 for control arms for a 2007 taurus, just for the parts. When I bought my own for 150$ I could tell he felt contempt for me. I need to just go to a different mechanic but hes the closest to my home unfortunately.
It should be extremely similar, close enough that you should be able to figure it out. You'll have to check torque specs though as they likely are different.
Absolutely. I actually do my best work after a few beers. There is this perfect point I hit where I get really good ideas and a bunch more ambition, and that's not the alcohol talking, I have numerous witnesses. As long as I maintain that perfect little buzz, everything goes good. Drink too slow or too fast, and it all goes to hell.
I feel your pain. I have this car and the sway bar link bolt on the bottom would not come loose after replacing the shock. So I grabbing a hog nose and cut that bitch flush so I could drive it. And fart was on point. Chefs kiss
