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<\/a>Fiat 124 Sedan Special sway bar mount is not nearly as complicated as the drop link arrangement found on the Giuliettas I’m used to.\u00a0 Here the silent block IS the mount.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe unexpected wheel bearing work took about an hour and when I crimped an edge of the nut in to the axle groove I found I had turned the nut about 30 degrees tighter than it was before.\u00a0 I guess this is about a tenth of a millimeter.\u00a0<\/p>\n Returning to the problem of the broken sway bar mount,\u00a0it turns out\u00a0what was broken was a pressed in captive stud.\u00a0 I\u00a0was not excited to pull the lower control arm off the car to press in a new stud, and I wasn’t sure I could get a nut in the space between the control arm edge and spring so I decided to tap an M6 hole in what remained of the stud.\u00a0 Once the threads were tapped in the hole I moved the silent block back into position and screwed it down.\u00a0 Hopefully it will hold for a while.<\/p>\n<\/a>While pulling the wheel off I noticed there was some play in the wheel bearing so I decided to repack them with grease and\u00a0tighten the securing\u00a0nut a little.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>2 Bolts and the caliper is off, axle shaft is nice and clean.\u00a0 The old grease smelled like artichokes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>Bearings seals and associated hardware cleaned up nicely using a little gas followed by brake cleaner.\u00a0 I used air to chase any solvent out then repacked them with wheel bearing grease. <\/strong><\/p>\n