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1421 hits | 55.83 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
This is the height sensor. One or both ends start to jump off the ball studs it attaches to. This te...

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1450 hits | 50.23 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
One ball stud is bracketed onto the axle and the other is on the frame. They get dirty and rusty too...

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1167 hits | 49.51 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
Here's the upper socket that pushes onto the ball stud. The shiny spring is supposed to keep pressur...

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1169 hits | 46.71 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
Here's the backview of the socket. In theory you're meant to deperss the spring with your thumbnail ...

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1180 hits | 39.97 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
Like anything set into plastic, the metal spring has a detent to allow removal of the spring. I used...

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1090 hits | 34.97 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
Once out you can see the cupped shaped part of the spring that is supposed to hold the ball stud in ...

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1154 hits | 39.38 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
Once out the spring is helpless to your will. I stretched the spring apart to put some life/spring b...

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1950 hits | 56.94 KB | Posted: 3/10/06
Okay so I'm not the most trusting backyard mechanic. I tie-wrapped the crap out of it, even though i...

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1559 hits | 51.2 KB | Posted: 3/28/06
The ultimate solution ! Drilled through the ball stud and threaded it to 1/4-UNC-20 and spun it out ...

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1139 hits | 63.7 KB | Posted: 3/28/06
Started drilling out the ball. Went all the way out to 1/4 UNC-20 so only the ball is left with inte...