slid into a curb.......

[gothguydante]

okay i was driving in snow and my car slid into a curb well my front driver side tire hit and it's back about an inch.. so what sould i have to do to fix the position of the tire... is my axle shot or do i have to replace axle and arm bar i dono...

oh yeah the driver side tire is back about an inch compered to the passsanger side.


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1990
Ford Festiva L
Automatic

[Biglay5150]

You bent your sway bar.Most likely

[gothguydante]

ummm can i rip one off another car thats not a festy that will work... we have no festivas around here.. well in the junk yard.

[mattswabb]

nope. Must use a festiva arm. About $50 at the parts store.

[gothguydante]

wait what arm bar or sway bar or both.... two people saying two diffarent things

[Biglay5150]

Most likely its the sway bar the one that attaches to the chassy and to both lower control arms. The lower control are will pivot back into place once tou replace the swaybar. I have one but shipping might be a little steep from here to you. Im sure someone closer has one or you can get one off an Aspire.

[mattswabb]

Could be either the arm or sway bar or both. Jack up the car and compare the left and right sides and see what's different/bent. My guess is the arm is bent.

[gothguydante]

so i can get on off an aspire... and i can't find anyone around here with a festy for parts.. we have like 8 festies driving around here and they are all in crap shap cept one.. other than mine well i mean mine is second best around here. and mine is all messed up.. people just drive them till they die and i have been waiting so i can get it for parts.

[jglutz]

All above is really well said.....One thing I would also check before stating any work or gathering parts....is check where the lower control arm enters the frame and the frame mounts for the front sway bar....What should they look like....a mirror image of the other side. If they're messed up....might change your game plans a little bit...

[Biglay5150]

The Aspire I used for my brake swap was put in a ditch at 55mph the front was wasted airbags deployed windshiend broke. I got it for $40. The driverside tire was touching the back of the fender. All that was wrong with the suspension was the sway bar was bent back. The LCA was fine.
Did you hit the curb sraight on, on an angle , or did you hit in from the side. If you pushed the tire back towords you than im guessing you hit it straigt or on an angle and would guess you bent the swaybar. Does your car look this bad?

I can see how much it might cost to send you the extra swaybar I have if you want.
Bob

[gothguydante]

no it was a L curb and i hit it diagonal at 15 mph i might take that sway bar but if i can use one of an aspire i can get on for 15 bucks at the local yard... i'm going to take some pictures and put them on here when it gets light out.. it's 2:44 am ..tired. yes but yeah i hope i can use the sway bar from an aspire...... but anyway tomorrow is my tune up/ maintenance day so i will let you know the damage...

[Biglay5150]

You CAN use the Aspire swaybar. That is your best bet.

[gothguydante]

sweet i'm leaving to go to a yard right now... we don't have any festys in there but we have like 6 aspires..

[gothguydante]

okay here is the link to my pictures of my car i got under it and turns out i need a swaybar to arm bar bushing also..
http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...uy69er666/Car/
and yes that is a factory spare tire...

[Biglay5150]

Did you not take the ones that were on the aspire that you got the swaybar from? You need to. And the brackets. Just get everything that attaches to the swaybar. If you didnt get them go back and tell them and I bet they will let you take them.
Bob