Thread: Pass steering knuckle

Wait a min wait a min, Walmart sells steering knuckles? Wtf? And the same knuckle that's at least 50+bucks less with the same Dorman part number? Just doesn't seem right to me,


Hello all and thanks for your time in advance!!!

First off I'm not placing blame on anyone, let's get that part out of the way cause my wife may just read this haha. So wed my wife drove the grandprix to work, on her way home I was on the phone with her talking about supper and she hit a pothole so hard I heard the dash shake violently. I said babe are you ok? Get off the phone and drive already "jokingly" I put a Bluetooth deck in so we could (legaly) chat while driving. She arrived home and I looked in the car to find a vent on the ground, meaning she REALLY took that hole on. I drove it around the next day probably put 80-90 miles on it before the passenger steering knuckle broke while I was going 50 on a crowded street. It veered into oncoming tragic I hit the park brake trying to pitch the car it started rotating I depressed again to take off the park brake and stood on the gas. Not a scratch on my car or anyone else's. But I Def had to change my drawers afterword... I've owned mustangs 350z and a few other cars that I learned to drift in so I am OK at controlling a car but with the adrenaline and panic I thought I was a upright corps, I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that twice and THANKGOD I was alone had no kids or wifey in the car. Just believe me when I say it was about as close to death as I have yet to come in my 35 yrs here... so my question... I am HELL BENT on replacing driver and passenger side knuckles tie rod ends (even though they aren't bent) like pretty much everything I can afford to replace. When I'm done the suspension will be new but beside the knuckles what's the best place to go next? In other words what do you fine folks think will fail and try to kill me next? haha I ALWAYS rain snow or shine do the work myself for its hard for me to trust the lives of my most precious cargo to someone I don't know let alone someone who sees my car as number 6 of the day... nah not this guy. Weekend warrior baby yeah. Thanks for ANY input and if you don't have nothing nice to say go start another thread ..




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Yeah abrupt is a subtle word for it. I was driving down a straight smooth road when it broke, like I said I'm glad it broke on me and no one else. So after the knuckle, hub, and? I have in my head what seems to be a good plan but I value opinions and input in such things. You can't learn anything if your to stubborn to listen to someone else's opinion. So let's here it folks

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I would visually inspect everything of course. Check sway bar and links. My sway bar is bent, is hard to tell if your not looking for it, but mine is bent and starting to touch one of my axle boots. (Chicago potholes)


I would really inspect the strut and control arms as well.

I have VERY thoroughly checked all I can get to and while replacing the knuckle on pass side where the incident occurred I was very thorough but some stuff the eye can't see and the car was bought used so beside me being anal about even the smallest Crack or fissure I feel compelled to replace everything the tire COULD have contacted whilst flipping around in the well even though the only scratch I see is on the strut, and it is so small it may not have come from the broken knuckle. The ball joint DEF got trashed but ya know I'll bet I could have still used it if I weren't such a freak about weird sh*t I'm thinking all else I need to replace is what fivefinger spoke of. Eventually within the next year the suspension will be mostly hotchkis from the 89009 kit
I go to the track now and then but on an empty road I drive much faster than I should (says the law anyway :-\ ) so I depend on solid parts keeping my idiotic mind on my shoulders where it goes. Thanks guys I feel better and somewhat relieved confirming options with others. And again thanks for your time. Have a great night and weekend

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rockauto lists them as cast iron per dorman. Dorman is advertising them as an upgrade to the aluminum OEM's and are supposedly "crack resistant" lol

And they're any where from 200 to 300... I went to the junkyard and got a clean one for 35 bucks, but I am saving for the supposedly upgraded one. It will be back running tomorrow I had to replace the tie rod, strut, lower control arm, bushings ect today. Not cheap, I hope Dorman really did upgrade them. That was a scary situation swerving into oncoming traffic made me want to replace everything

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Just the one strut same spring, I changed them both about 3 months ago, and it will Def go for alignment . I appreciate the input for sure. Good lookin out

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Yea well Dorman had a massive recall on their steel knuckles breaking so I'd be cautious of grabbing steel ones from a junkyard. I did see a impala cop car yesterday in the junk yard and the knuckles looked like aluminum. Got the rear sway out tho cause the whole front end was smashed in lol.

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That was almost what mine looked like. It was WAY to close. The Dorman Steering Knuckle 697-910 is said to be cast iron. I think summit has em for 80 or 90 bucks which whoops the hell outa local places that are asking almost 300. I'm going for an alignment tomorrow, I'm happy with everything I bought but the knuckle. It was cheap, clean, and will hopefully hold together for a few day haha.



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