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Lateral Arm
« on: November 28, 2006, 03:42:28 AM »

my car started making a loud grinding noise a couple months ago an i put my car on a hoist and i found out that the ball joint on my lateral arm is busted but it didnt give...i had checked around and only dealers supply this part and the part is running on average 480$ so i was wondernig if anyone had any suggestions or had one layin around that i could buy for a good price...
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« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2006, 03:32:38 PM »

Mitsubishi parts from a Mitsubishi dealership or website.  Try discountmitsubishiparts.com, use a cross reference to a Galant they use the same suspension parts.  The part you need is the lower compression arm, it is larger and kinda curved with a ball joint.  You should be able to get them for half the price though Mitsubishi dealers.  I know, cause I've been looking too, and I have to replace the same arm soon too.
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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2006, 08:23:58 PM »

yeah, i dont know why they have to make parts for our cars so frickin expensive.  i had to replace all of my wheel bearings and that was damn near $2500 after i was all done with all 4 of them Angry
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Re: Lateral Arm
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2006, 01:58:34 AM »

the lateral arm is recalled. that's the straight arm.
the curved, compression arm or pitman arm or whatever you want to call is the expensive one. you can usually find them on ebay for much less.
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2006, 04:27:39 AM »

is this the right part??
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Re: Lateral Arm
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2006, 03:51:18 PM »

no, you need one of these.. 4 or 5
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« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2006, 08:03:10 PM »

#4 is the expensive one.  Like I said, go to a Mitsubishi dealer get the same part number referenced to a Galant, it will be half the price.  Downer, I have that same pic in my files.
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