Hey there viewers and welcome back to the south main auto channel sitting inside the 2017 hyundai santa fe uh, don't know what engine's in it, but rest assured it is big uh and the guy has a big problem. He said he pulled this thing out of his garage and he heard this pop and then a bang and then a clang and he looked on the ground and found a piece of a spring. So he had it towed here. He didn't, dare drive it uh, and this was last week and i looked at it, and it indeed does have a broken left front spring looks like the spring wound itself up around the upper strut mount.

So it wants us to fix it had to order some parts from hyundai and they just showed up. We got a new spring uh new strut bearing and a couple of new aftermarket struts so wants us to tear apart and put them in, and i thought i'm bringing you along. So i've never done struts on one of these little guys. But i looked in service data and apparently you can take this little cover off and i'll be jigged.

Look right in there. That's a good uh good thing there hold on got ta. Give me a light. Look at that, so the bolts for the top of the strut are right in here, so that's handy, uh and then there's another one, just like this access panel.

On the other side, i think before i raise it up, i'm gon na get those nuts off and then just leave one threaded on lightly by hand that way, when we're ready to get all the jiggly bits off. Underneath we'll give her the reach around from the fender, hold the strut and then be able to reach up here and just take one off one strut, bolt kind of pisser to get to use an offset or yeah a little offset wrench here i don't know if We'll be able to get enough power to break that thing loose or not come on baby. Oh look at that. So this is about the only difficult one to get to without tearing more of the uh or the cowling off the one closest to the inside of the vehicle.

Here that one we're gon na leave once we crack it loose we're gon na leave it on we're. Gon na spin it on just a couple, a couple of clicks: there we go so those are all loose now i'll reach in look at that baby, she's long and thin and quarter inch drive a little micro head on it. Amazing it is the astro. I don't even know the model number have to look it up.

I've got them in 3, 8 and half inch drive super handy there. We go folks, uh, all of the nuts are off, like i say, except the two inner ones. I've got them threaded on. Just a schmidge, so the struggle will stay in the car up and now we can peel the wheels and finish taking the struts out.

I hate wheel locks and do people still steal wheels nowadays at least not where i live? They don't it's not a wheel. Big problem around here, i'm sure some places it's a really big deal. Okay, that's it folks! I'm done i'm done with the jokes they're, not really that good anyways. So we give her a little douche of what we're using today, the deep creep by seafoam uh.

Now that it does anything it may, but there's really not a mechanic on this planet that has time enough to wait for penetrating oil to actually penetrate at least ones that work in the shop typically don't at least i don't i don't know, i can't speak for Everyone folks, what size are these 19 pie? Look like a 19 on that side. 17. On the other, we'll get some tools. We've got to peel off the sway bar link, which is also 17., we'll get uh some sockets and some wrenches and we're almost out bringing out the dog available now in stores limited loosen that one loosen that one get a wrench.

Take that one out take that one out drop it on the floor. There's that little fella there's that little fella right there come on baby come on what we got handy. We got it. We got a ratchet ping.

There's that one hey, if asher didn't want you to use this for a punch, they shouldn't have made it long and slender, because before we get too far ahead of ourselves, we should clip the camera on here. Uh drop the knuckle out of the strut. Obviously, when you take the bolt out, she comes loose and then the strut should have the ability. Ah, maybe let me move this out of the way again to rotate providing your strut.

Bearing is somewhat intact still. So i just pulled the knuckle down here. Set it to the side, don't rip your cv, shaft in half all right, folks rotated it. So i can get to this thing.

Whatever you want to call it, the old whatchamacallit, the sway bar link. Let's get a pair of vice grips. I wish they had a flat on the back side of them, but they don't now you've got to use. Why are you using such a little pair of vice grips? There go.

I thought you were a man uh. We have to use a smaller pair because we don't want to rip the boot, so we need one, that's thin, and this is the thinnest pair. I have so we want to get in here, but we want to be able to get a good bite on it. I think we can go a little tighter there.

We go then we'll try to give it just a couple. Little tunks must be the deep creep got in there deep, so we unhook that there's no hole in the front to hold it like with a torx bit, not that that ever works ever in your life. What the heck movie was that from yaya ding dong we want to hear yeah, i got a ding dong, it was a, it was a will. Ferrell movie, it was uh, but i still watch it cause.

I watch movies like that. Uh there we go. This strut is ready to come out minus the bolt up top i'm gon na go prep the other side like a prepper, we're gon na line this back up straight we're gon na set the car down, go up top hold her on the shaft. Take the nut off up top out she'll come so.

The driver's side here is a bit more jacked up because the spring is busted and it spun itself around. So the strut is kind of well. Maybe let me see, i don't think i can rotate it. Oh baby yeah, so we can got all excited for nothing.

It's still a little jacked up, making this side a tad more difficult, not on a grand scale, but minutely, more difficult. We just got to be careful taking it out. I don't think the spring's gon na cut loose on us. If it does it ain't gon na go far, it can just untwirl itself if you're worried about it, just cut the spring.

Take the torch and just just nip the spring or you know, take some tension off it. If you're you're worried, if you're a worrywart come on baby there, she is where's the uh that one there stick that in there we don't want to lose that we'll take our nuts and bolts off the side and stick them on the lift and we're ready to Rip her down, i'm going to demonstrate for you here coming in from the side and up and under i'm just going to hold the strut grunt a little bit take that off and then we'll bend down here and we'll slip it out. I'm going to show you on the other side. Now she comes so there's this side.

That's where the spring is busted fresh, break, baby right there, the spring is sprung and uh. I'm glad i got strut bearing because i see that's all busted up so hopefully i don't need any more parts than what i got all right. Let's take out the other side. Go grab that baby, like that.

We got ta come down here, move all your hoses and stuff got ta. Let it rest there for a minute. We have to take the abs. I took this one out of the bracket on the other side.

Come on baby there she goes slip. It underneath your strut here come on. Man. Baby is born at this point.

You're going to want to take your truck to a shop. If you don't have a strut spring compressor at home and have them swap out your parts for you we're going to do it back here on the old brand that doesn't fit. Try again here we'll try this socket that one fits we need to hold the stud on the strut and then figure out which way to turn it. That way is the way it's going to go now.

I've already got this compressed should be good enough to spin off there now hand nylock nut. You know, make some mental notes. If you're doing this yourself and you're using the old death trap, screws make sure you make some marks. You know which way things are going, which way the springs facing, which way the strut space and which way the upper mounts facing mark it with a paint marker.

If you got to and then pull this out there, she is baby and now we're going to relieve the tension. So we can put us because we're putting springs. You want springs on both sides. We don't want the car sitting pockeyed.

Anything like that. So we're going to back this off, take the tension off it be mindful of how you have your spring set up on the bottom and on the top, and all that, because it'll make going together a whole lot easier. This one sits relatively straight. I say that and now it does this.

This is a little stretch box, i'm not sure who makes it or anything like that. But there's some information for you barbarian, auto sports part number is a bravo 88 triple zero. 81.. Okay, sean nice bit of kit.

I broke a few of the tools in it haven't had a chance to contact them to get new ones. Now we will bring our spring over here. That is unsprung can't get our upper mount off. It looks like there is some clear defining marks between the top and bottom: that's our strut spring or strut bearing right there.

This baby should come up that baby comes off. This is our bellow and our joust bumper is inside here a little guy lives in there and uh. We want to get this bearing off. However, before we pull the bearing off, we should go: let's see what the new ones look like, and then we can beat it off there new spring from clearly uh, not a sponsor, try to get a sponsorship.

They would not sponsor us. There's the part number on that she's right there. It's like any other information that shouldn't show you. I don't think so.

Here's the bearing there's the number on that made in the korean. So there's our new strut grain. That's what allows your wheel to turn or the strut turn without binding up your spring, so there's they weren't very expensive, like 20 bucks. I think so.

We do need to take this rubber off here. I'm guessing am i right. My guy, maybe not might be a different style fella. Let me get a screwdriver screwdriver new pair of gloves.

Oh, the rubber seems to be attached pretty well, but it's got to come off. It's got to be the insulator. I would imagine all right. I think it's molded onto yeah, it's molded onto this strut bearing so that's interesting, makes me wonder if they just did away with it.

What the story is here, it's an skf bearing but yeah. No, this is molded onto this strut bearing it is not separate. You can see how it's bonded right there and if i pull on it's just going to tear it in half, because it's kind of glued right to this so uh, it must be a different design. I'm going to check with hyundai just to make sure that we really kind of suck right now.

If i didn't get that and needed it. So i looked on oem parts and they do show it separate. So i got my little world's smallest pry bar and fit it in here before we tear this thing to pieces and just started working it it's about thomas. I was like work, it guy work it kept going around because i did not order this.

I didn't know it was gon na be a big deal, so we're not gon na make it a big deal. But apparently you got ta come from the top side here, just work that guy yeah baby, so there's that so that is how it comes off. So yes, i was the correct. It is bonded to like a plastic ring which will go on the new strut bearing so i'm gon na take and get this cleaned up because we want it nice.

We want it clean i'll, wash it off in the sink, with some dawn clean that up clean up the upper strut mount then we'll boop, doo doo, it's all clean! That's all gon na go like this. Why not just go like this initially get that baby all squeezed on there now this uh bearing it, doesn't matter which way it goes on here as long as it goes on, i don't think it matters the way it goes. No, it doesn't there's no alignment, there's no keys, there's no, there's! No, nothing! You just got ta. We need something, we know whacking device.

What we got down here hold on folks. Look at this. I got just what we need. Why won't you go on? You shouldn't? Be giving me a fit? Oh it did it fit perfectly she's right on there all the way around.

Why did that act like it was doing something it seemed like it was getting all kind of cattywampus, but clearly it is on all the way. So, there's that we'll stick down the tool to the side open up our new spring identify the top of the bottom paint marks going at the bottom. Just like the og uh. Let's get our new strut, the lower insulator.

I just took it off the old strut uh. Let's see this is gon na go on like so it's got little holes it lines up in line them. Babies up grab it by the nipples and make sure they pull all the way through sometimes well, these ones. Don't have a little retainer so never mind, don't pull on the nipples come around here it latches under there, so it just kind of sits on there.

Um. Can i get a hold of that? Oh you can't hear a wuss poink rub even watch him grow there. It is that's out all the way, uh we'll get our spring already in the strut compressor. We can take our mount.

You can stick that back on here kind of line it up where it was. If you want not super critical, but so there's that we're gon na line her up, how we had it roughly ish, if you remember, i don't somewheres in this neighborhood, i told you to remember all this stuff, because you're gon na need it. I think we're about like this. I know the back one's not hidden, but it will.

This is where we need to have a little trust. It'll all straighten up. This is how it was when we took it apart, and this was the non-broken side so order. Thing's gon na come flinging out of there like a and catch us in the guts.

Hopefully, not that's what we're hoping it doesn't because you ain't going to be that quick, i'll, tell ya i'll! Tell you that right now now you'll notice up here, we got a little flat spot and on this upper mount, there's also a flat spot and you line up the flat spot with the flat spot. It's that simple folks, we'll come up through here, whoa chevy, thunder josh is pulling it rotted out, chevrolet, okay, compressor a little bit more and then we got ta rotate that until that comes up through the mount now like i said, you got ta line up the Flat spot, i don't believe in santa claus and i don't believe that this can go through if we're not in the correct position there, it is baby where's, my clamp, i'm just going to clamp it on the bottom temporarily until we find the nut and the washer. It's got a flat, washer nylock and conveniently the aftermarket changes the middle here, so we're going to need some different tools to put it together. So let's find them yeah thanks for telling me jerks, i just tested you yeah.

A couple of you passed couple of you said: hey, you forgot that you didn't know. Well, congratulations. You guys just won nothing! Stick this baby back on there wow what an idiot, let's get the wrinkles out of it! First, not that it matters, but it's just personal preference! It drives me nuts, get it all together and see that one wrinkle at the top and know that you could have fixed it there we go so i think you're driving some chevy thunder there josh, oh yeah. I just wanted to exhaust the way it is yeah.

I know he's like: oh, i want to fix my exhaust, i'm like. Oh, i didn't know he didn't want to be cool. What's that here for a service inspection, oh, i thought we told them to ditch that truck. I thought the frame was rotted on it.

I thought so yeah what year is it 2010? Oh nine yeah it's gon na be smoked man. Maybe let's get things lined up here fella? Where was she before right there? There we go clampy that just to hold it now. At this point, we will get our devices now we're just going to take and snug this up. That's not going to work there.

It goes we're going to snug this little guy up and we're going to position the bottom of the strut, where we need it right now. We just have it kind of holding make sure that you torque this down with a torque wrench in the exact manner that service data tells you to don't just go snugging it up all right. So we'll come back and do that here in a minute or two probably won't show that on camera, but definitely torque it up the bottom, where it belongs and then we're going to start taking some tension off of it. You're always so tense.

You strut there we go there's that nothing blew up now. We just got to do it again and then just be sure, come by yeah baby push your uh joust bumper, just back into that upper mount. If you were a ding dong and forgot to uh and put it in the mount before you put shut together so anyway, no casualties uh, rotate grabber between your legs here and then you can rotate your upper bearing whichever way it needs to go now. These conveniently have a r for the right and the arrow for facing out, which you would have noted when you took it apart now doing the other side left side with the broken spring is exactly the same, except you have to be a little more cautious um, Which happens to be my middle name, because the spring is sticking out, it's kind of sharp.

She can bite you, oh there's, a speaking of getting bit, there's a big old spider wrong way wrong way. Again, you ever woke up in the morning says man, i'm not gon na sleep good tonight, unless i figure out what is inside a strut bearing. Why do they call this truck bearing well today's your lucky day, if that's you folks, here's one of the you know the good one we took off and here's the inside of the one that catastrophic failure after the spring brook this didn't break the spring but uh When the spring broke, it came up and smashed it and popped it apart and essentially that's all they are folks. They are an actual ball bearing at least on this model.

Now some of the general motors ones you take apart because they're cheap, they don't use ball. Bearings, it's like two plastic plates that slip past each other in their real crappy design. This is a pretty good design, providing it it seals good, and it doesn't get a lot of junk up in here now this these ones were still pretty greasy, even despite being busted apart, and this style here tends to last a long time. Until you know the impenetrable seal gets penetrated and well then the rest is history.

I don't know if we can break this one apart mother lover, maybe probably, if a spring broke it apart weekend. If you want to look in there, show you what it looks like. What's a little bit intact: oh there we go pop it apart boom bearing bearing races, they're just plastic. I think the race is plastic appears to be nope she's, a metal race.

Why would it be idiot so there it is. There's your strut bearing in case you're. Ever wondering do not confuse it, even though these are big. Don't confuse these with a muffler bearing muffler bearings are all metal, whereas these have some plastic on them before you go put it in make sure you have your upper strut mount oriented the way it was with the bottom of your strut, and you know, watch out For your brake hoses and such as you go to put it in so we're gon na take slip it down past the brake hoses, just like so, and then we're gon na get her just resting on top of the axle not on the boot and then we're Gon na look up top and line up the upper mount once you get it poking through is stick one of the nuts on it and then wipe the wiggle it to get the other ones in just get all three of them started there.

You go just like that now, once they're started, we can go put all this stuff underneath and then, when we set the car down, you'll see them right up in there we'll get right in there with our torque wrench and be able to torque them right down. For you now we should be able to get this bad boy line back up in there, we'll get a bolt ready and then we'll just pick up the lower control arm, just like so and then we'll get the bottom one. Now there is a little bit of slap in this bad mama jama, um. Sometimes the strut aftermarket struts will be slotted, so you have adjustable camber so to speak, there's just a tiny bit of movement in this one.

We will probably leave it just in a relaxed outward position. If, when we do the alignment, we check the alignment and the camber is off. Let's say it's, you know way out of spec. We can remove the cam bolt and put an aftermarket cam bolt in, or we can remove this.

The strut knuckle bolt here and put an aftermarket cam bolt in it to allow us to have some adjustment. That's easy enough to do. I typically don't put them in prior to checking the alignment. You know looking at the tire wear and stuff on this.

It looked like it was good previously, so i won't be surprised if it's still, you know respectfully well or with an alignment or close enough um. We will check, though, when we're done that's part of the process, but let's see if we can't get this pulse, i don't know if that hole is threaded. Some of these are self-threading that one does not look like a self-threading bolt and the hole the hole is. The wrong size threads thanks a lot teneco you jerks - this is a eight millimeter.

Uh thread looks like eight one, two five and i think we're gon na need a six, a six one. Oh let's go see. If i got one there we go. I also grabbed the lock washer too.

Let me find a 10 mil one hour later. I found a 10 millimeter just kidding. We got piles of them. Let's knock that little guy up, of course, we'll come back through and we'll torque that to factory spec, not that we have the proper torque spec now, because they change the size of the fastener so because we just won't torque anything at this point, um the sway Bar feels like she's, just tight as a tiger in those bushings, because it's up quite a ways jk.

It was just hitting the axle on the other side uh. Oh, my god, baby. She stole those tight bushings there we go, pull it down a little bit, we're at full droop. So all right, i'm gon na go hook some stuff up on the other side and then we're gon na come through and torque.

All this down time gets away from me. I had to walk away from this for a minute and go do some other stuff, and then i think a few hours went by so here we are like this is where we left off. We're going to do is we're going to lightly snug it up and then, like i said, come back through look up all of our torque specs and then get everything torqued properly wrong size, fella good thing i left stuff out of my tool - cart, those we won't 100 percent, until we get on the alignment machine and then we'll see, if we're going to end up having to put a camber. So now that the weights back on it, we can go through and snug these little guys up and spin them down by hand.

And then you know obviously we'll get in here the torque bench and all that stuff, do it by the books and make it right so i'll work on that and um. I think that's about it, folks we're just about done we'll get it checked out for alignment we'll go driving around town a little bit. First, make sure that the springs are all kind of settled where they're going to be for now anyways. So this is over on the driver's side.

I forgot to show you about the black cap. They just go on and it will click on all the way around come on there. She goes, they click on they snap right over top of the strut and then, of course, you could probably figure out how this goes just like. So that's that and that's some aftermarket gizmo that was probably enhanced a little too much rule number one.

Don't take your stuff to the alignment guy unless you get things broke loose, i mean, i know it's kind of like his job, but he will love you so much and probably do a good alignment because you did it got everything broke loose for them. She's a little snug um, so the problem with getting stuff broke loose on the alignment. Rack is a it's a huge pain in the ass because the runways are in the way and b. If we got to break out the torch which we might have to do on this, one um things grow, and then you got ta wait for that sucker to cool all the way down before you can do the alignment, because test me on this folks put on Your alignment machine heat that jam nut just to jam it up with a torch while watching the readings on your screen.

It'll, take the toe out of spec um it'll, move it several tenths of a degree uh, just simply by heating it up, and then you got to sit there and just wait forever for it to cool down. So if we have to do that by time, we get over there, we're gon na be we're gon na be cool man right there. Folks uh we're ready for the alignment. Now we need to take it for a rip and we should be good to drive around a little bit.

We didn't change much uh in regards to the alignment. So that's what we'll do we'll set her down? Take it through a two check with my boy josh. If he's ready for it, all right doesn't make noise the entire time, like i say, we'll, go around town, we'll hit some railroad tracks, we'll make sure everything feels okay. The springs are kind of sitting on their rubber seats, which they should be.

We put them together in the proper order. I don't think anything's coming we'll find out in a second nope. No third, oh smooth baby, like butter, smooth like butter, the tentacle oe spectrum by monroe, kind of hit or miss with them. I'll be honest with you and i'm not 100 impressed with their quality, but lately they've been okay but boy.

I tell you when they first came out and advertised them as their asian strut everyone. I did. I got back leaking pizza crap, so i quit using them for a while try to teach them a lesson, but it does. It doesn't teach them anything.

Nobody cares big corporate big business, technical giant company and that's who now makes well, they make you know who, and they also make napa chassis stuff. So that explains to me why the napa chassis stuff has gone right in the toilet, um along with mooc and just a bunch of chinese garbage. So, unfortunately, as these companies like that, dormant and stuff take over the aftermarket automotive industry parts, this is what happens and you deal with it or you buy oem, which some some customers just can't afford. Uh.

As a matter of fact, the oem struts on this were horrendous in price um so and the guy, i think i think he told me he's getting rid of this. Actually, he was gon na get rid of it. This year he told me for a new telly ride back here, but with rona and shortages and circuit boards and microchips, and all that crap that's going on with the old play endemic. You know nothing's available, so he's going to hold off, so i'm told anyways little story.

Dmi tmi. This feels pretty pretty normal. Steering wheel is nice and straight here, when we drive let's go see what josh has to say: where's, my guy. Oh there he is josh has got her up on the alignment equipment here.

Here's where we're at spec wise, so it's pretty darn close. I know the customer is going to be getting rid of this car uh relatively soon. So i'm going to give him the option on the camber. If he wants it, you know dead nuts, because this is about two tenths of a degree off and then uh, two tenths of a degree or so the other way on that side, toe obviously will straighten out uh the rear is not too bad.

It's not really that horrible, so if he still intends on getting rid of this in six months or so, and the camber is super close, it's not going to cause some any tire. Wear issues, we'll probably just have my boy josh straighten out the toe and ship. It for now, but definitely going to leave it up to the customer. Well, that's that folks, uh, the guy was happy with just just set the toe and you know adios.

I told him it was really close and i also uh explained to him. If he's going to keep it, you know, let's say he, you know decided to drive it for another year. Uh wants the best wear out of his tires. We should tweak that just a little bit uh to tweak it in, but i also explained to him that if i was him i would drive it for at least you know a tank full of gas, so you know three 400 miles make sure those springs are At where they're gon na be at you know, get the you know the sag in them or whatever.

However, you want to explain it just kind of make sure that's all settled and that's where they're going to be, for you know the majority of their life till they break. So that's kind of my thoughts right or wrong. That's what i told them so uh. What i'm going to tell you, though, is something a little different, i'm going to tell you to go in that comment section the questions, the comments, the concerns you might have find us on the insti.

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