It may be a pain to clean up spills, but the effort is worth it to prevent environmental contamination. I took care of any spills from it, fortunately my bed liner mostly contained it. I ran to Walmart around the block to grab some cat litter to soak it all up. Two bags barely covered what was left...

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https://youtu.be/Rk9TVM50iA4?si=JM2eXx0el5vbz65k Broke the ball joint pinch bolt driving on our glorious New York roads. Recently did an axle swap and took the whole knuckle out to press the old axle out, but the car has been driven on a 600 mile round trip since then, and it chose to break down 20 ...

I disagree with this. Experience has shown several owners have had the bolt shear after re-use. Go ahead and re-use, that is your call.

Neil.

The ball joint nut has an elliptical exit port so that it self locks. Reusing the nut will mean it doesn’t lock. It’s not that tight as it holds the ball joint in by lateral shear, not bolt tension so you need the locking action of a new nut

You should check it. Mine until two almost failed completely did not throw a code. Have her remove the cover and pull the wire and start. If the roughness does not change it's that coil. When your two coils were almost failed, was the car threatening to stall when coming to a stop and running rough...

I have a tool called a nut splitter which does the similar thing to the dremel. Having said that, in this case the dremel may be the best way to go as the nuts have no side profile for a nut splitter to catch on.

I wish you a load of good luck!

Neil.

I think it makes sense to make it a clean transfer of title for liability reasons. Worst case, someone keeps a $1000 car

I plan on doing one each semester

I just want to congratulate everyone on getting to 1000 pages for this thread!

I keep mine in my pocket. If anyone calls me while I'm driving they can leave a voice mail and I'll call them back when I've stopped.