i am a total idiot and i messed stuff up and need help now

[thrasherx89]

alright, soooo....

i lowered my car and i totally forgot about what it does to the suspension

i got tein super drifts on the car along with adjustable, rear toe, traction and upper control arms, i got it so that the camber isnt so negative

when i dropped it down im sure i messed soemthing up got it to les schwab to do an allignment, he says he wont touch it because their is play in my front and that it was too low(slammed like crazy)

so i raised them to full height and he says thats high enough to allign but i need to fix my front

when i turn my wheel all the way to the right and play with it, he says their is too much play i think in the ball joint on the inner tie rod, also i can hear it pop when i drive it and tur the wheel

i think i need to replace the inner tie rods correct? thats what gets damaged when you super slam a car without correction, can anybody help me with info on this?

and could it be anything else? i think their is some up and down play which i hope isnt the rack

thanks everybody and yes im an idiot

[the converted]

Slamming your car wouldn't hurt the tire rods, but 18 years of driving is likely to wear them out. Also keep in mind that if he aligns it at the highest height and then you drop it, you have just wasted all of that money.

[Dazzla]

yeah, if you go and drop the car after alignment, your alignment is useless lol

[thrasherx89]

haha no im not going to lower it after the alignment i realize that makes the allginment useless

no im just asking for info about what happend

i saw it and it looks like pay in the inner tie rod, the outer appears to be fine but im going to check it all tommorrow

would lowering the car affect the inner?

hopefully just my inner ball joint is mess and i just got to replace that and i can keep my outers until i get some teins or spl's

does anybody know wether beefier inners make all that big a difference ive heard that stock are good enough unless you hit something

thanks for the reply

[thrasherx89]

ok so i looked at my car this morning and i did the tests that you all told me about and pulled on the inner tie rod as well and determined that the outer tie rods on both sides are fine and even the boot is fine on them.the drivers side inner tie rod had no play while the passenger side did have alot of pay, so went to pick and pull and got me a passenger side inner tie rod that had no play

as well as some z32 inner tie rods for later

and put it on today with no play, i tried to match it up exactly to the one before it and i say it is pretty close

i dont think i have any bad toe in or out action going on, no way to tell unless drive i guess

does anybody know how to calibrate toe?

and everything else seemed to be fine

although the ball joint boot at on the lower control arms are busted open and dosnt seem to have any play though do you think that lowering the car so much could have damaged the lower control arm ball joint???

thanks everybody for all the help!! i found a place with a level ramp to do my alignment on my lowered car, gotta hurry up and get aftermarket outers before i even bother