So what's next?

[SuperHO]

Got a wild hair up my ass and pulled the passenger side suspension apart on the 98 last night. Got the wheel bearing replaced (after breaking 4 things in the process), so what's next?

It still needs struts and springs on all 4 corners. I broke the ride height sensor on the left front, both front stabilizer pins are broke, and it still needs front ball joints. Which direction should I be headed in next?

 

[E1 v2]

parts store?

 

[jthod]

car lot.

 

[bacernate]

Get the ball joints done as your half there already. And if they're loose enough that's a safety concern. I have a sensor if you want to pay for shipping.
I took off the sarcs and just put kyb's on it and it drives fine.
A taurus rides like shit anyways.
bought all 4 struts with my work discount for 210, beats the **** out of 190 each for sarcs.
If you need springs in the rear get some monroe sensa trac quick struts for a regular taurus, your car will ride fine unless you are racing around corners you'll never care about the sarcs.

 

[SuperHO]

The car's already back together, but ball joints is what I was thinkin next. The struts, well, after much picking the brain of Mr. A, I've decided that a set of 2004 struts with Eibach springs are the path I'll be taking for those, so I'm not too concerned at all for the ride height sensor. Struts are cheap as ****, and I can get the springs for less than $250 and pick em up about 10 miles from me.

 

[SHOZ123]

You won't like cheap struts and Eibachs.

 

[SuperHO]

so then what's the recommendation? I'm not getting SARCs....nuff said. The nut holding the strut mount's so rusted in the rear that the only way to get the spring off would be to cut the strut shaft, so I'm going with aftermarket springs. Eibachs seem about the only way to go there. So should I do KYBs?

 

[SHOZ123]

They would probably do in the rear.