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Hyundai Trajet shock strut movement

  • 27-06-2014 2:33pm
    #1
    Kencollins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    The wife's 2004 trajedy is due for it's NCT next week so I was giving it the once over today and found a problem.

    When the front driver side was jacked there was big play in the wheel up and down, left and right. The entire shock strut seems to move with the wheel in all four directions by maybe 4-5mm. It makes an audible click when it reaches the length of it's travel.

    I checked the tightness of all nuts with the torque wrench set to 100. The centre nut on the top of the strut was fine, as were the three retaining nuts. All the suspension nuts and bolts were tight also.

    The movement seems to be coming from the lower ball joint...could this be the source of the problem or is it likely to be the shock itself?

    Ken


Comments

  • #2
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    cheap and easy to fit if it is

    €17 ish

    http://car-part-suppliers.mister-auto.ie/en/moog-ball-joint-hyundai-trajet_e134_lg2462_ls4627/ <-- may or may not be it


  • #3
    Kencollins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Kencollins


    Thanks for that!

    Its the ball joints alright, I went out with a pry bar and there is a good cm of movement on the offending side.

    They are weird joints though, you bolt them on with 3 bolts instead of push them through and circlip them.

    50 euro for 2 of them, nearly an uneconomical repair on the trajedy!


  • #4
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Kencollins wrote: »
    They are weird joints though, you bolt them on with 3 bolts instead of push them through and circlip them.

    Oh they changed them since they needed replacing a fair bit

    You will be like a Formula 1 pit crew at speedy ball joint changes


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