Front suspension tune up

[TheChristian]

 

[TheChristian]

This is a bundle package by Scitto and comes in under 200.00 available on Amazon . Fits your 2000-2005 Buick lesabre . The reviews for Scitto aren’t bad so for a car that’s past the end of its shelf life and in need of a front suspension refresher this is the way to go . This is all easy diy for those that are mechanically inclined and that has a few tools lying around . I recommend an alignment after installation. Also available affordability on Amazon or rockauto are the Gabriel strut assemblies and CV Axles which you should just go ahead and do anyway.

 

[TheChristian]

Oh and while your at it replace those old and tired cross member bushings and while your down there replace your engine and transmission mounts . Just kidding of course . No really just do it !

 

[TheChristian]

I replaced every thing the market had available for the rear suspension , not available are the cross member isolators bushings . GM ran out of those a long time ago and no one makes an after market replacement. Of course I’m referring to the very large outer subframe insulator/isolatior
Bushings that are round . Theres an isolator bushing available for the center crossmember as well as the small square bushing for the cross member . Available is the control arms , trailing arms , coil springs but if you use moog you’ll be maxing out your ride height and you’ll be above the air level sensors factory engagement point and your shocks won’t air up as I experienced because your car will be sitting up to high for the leveler to activate . Leave your original spring in the car . Also available are many aftermarket coil over shocks for the rear of your car for those of you who don’t want to spend money on the air suspension components. Also available for the rear limited touring edition with rear sway arm are the sway arm to frame bushings and sway arm end link bushing kits .

 

[TheChristian]

For those of you who with a sagging rear , pun intended , and your suspensions air pump and leveler are still functioning you can carefully remove your frame to air leveler valve ROD and cut it in half , yes it’s metal in the center but plastic on the ends so be careful, take a 10-42 die and thread the ends of the arms of your two pieces as far down as you can go and buy the smallest adjustment sleeve ace hardware has and install it with a locking nut at each each end to lock it up when you get your desired ride height . No this isn’t for the average diyer but hey I’ll try anything once . It takes a while for the pump to kick in so this is fairly time consuming.

 

[02LTD2.0]

I think the bigger problem many folks will have with the rear suspension is RUST taking out the upper spring perches, That happened on my brother's 2004 Limited.

 

[JGBuick]

Wow... Less than $200 for all those front suspension parts? No reason not to. And yes, the rubber sub-frame bushings on my 2001 are probably rock hard. Good points you have made. The thing to remember is that age affects everything on a car. Even here in Arizona, it affects it. Rust belt cars? Even worse.