Alignment / front end inspection - this will help you find issues with ball joints / tie rod ends and wheel bearings which are reasonably serviceable but not super easy to self diagnose.
front sway bar end links - these have probably already been replaced at least once but if not, they are a bad...
So, I've looked at fordparts.com to attempt to identify the correct part number for the "christmas tree" pins that hold my 2001 sport trac door panels on but I had no luck.
Does anyone know the actual Ford part number, I need to replace the whole set and the cheapies from the parts store...
crawl underneath and look for the bolts/nuts that should be on the bottoms of the lower A arm and on top of the sway bar.
When my front failed it was because the bolt had rusted through. I had an end link bolted to the A arm but no longer bolted to the sway bar.
Jack up each side from...
So I attempted to do the lower ball joints on my 01 sport trac and lost. I got the front end apart and had the ball joint press installed and was working on it but here's where it fell apart.
The press I got from O'Reilly's had 3 rings that are designed to be the part that went around the...