Ok so i am a cheap bastard and bought some cheap $100 lowering springs for my 05 cobalt ss and they seemed pretty decent springs for money except one thing they where too short a d when i put car on lift at work back springs came out of perch and front strut mount would come apart well after a few times of messing with this i screwed up the front strut bearings some stainless racing wire fixed the rear from dropping too much solved that but the front mounts where a serious issue with the cheap as way they engineered the bearing and the materials they where made off no side loading ability or bearing destroyed itself so i looked for a solution...... i am going to buy coilovers in feb when i get rich for a week but till then needed a fix so it came to me in bed a few nights ago that if i put a tapered wheel bearing on the mount then the race for it on the spring perch if i had a welder would have used that but i dont so i had to get creative and am sure plenty of flames are gonna fly after this but i used pieces of old bearings the plastic ones like washers made them flat and had to make the id of the race side a little bigger so cage on bearing didnt rub it and i used gorilla glue super glue gel to hold bearing to plastic then glued plastic to the mount after i cleaned it up and took paint off the the perch i had to grind the lip in middle of perch off it interferred with the top of bearing cage once i ground the ring of took off paint and took the race i had glued to bearing plate and made id a little bigger i glued the plastic to the spring perch and held it there for ten minutes with some weight and set it in the sun to dry then greased the **** out of bearing and race and put strut back together the tapered roller bearing with the plastic top and bottom add a tad bit of height to the middle but like 10mm at best so dont really notice that but no more wheel shake under accell and steering is easier than ever has been since i owned car! I am a 20yr mechanic that has a excellent reputation for fixing things other guys couldnt get apart or fix and getting it done right so this took weeks if not months of thought and **** driving experience but aside from putting factory springz back in or buying yet two more mounts and bearings i went the route less traveled and engineered my own to great success i would have preferred to use a welder and would recomend it if not ur own car but once car is back on ground and mount is loaded is not an issue but wonce lifted on a lift was concerned alighnment guy would say he couldnt do it and point out the bearing coming apart so had to devise something to shut his lazy ass up and improve the poor design of a g6 strut with a cobalt mount have never seen a mount so stupid that didnt have bearing on strut shaft but oh well i fixed it and flogged the hell out of it on some country twisty roads scared the spit out of myself brought back to garage lifted front end then took tires off and inspected mount is still holding in center of mount the race and the bearing will take apart after weekend trip south about 6hrs one way but am confident it will still be ok will post some pics if i can from my phone and the bearing numbers i used later just thought i would write a really long fix to a stupid problem! Hope this helps some other cheap bastards out!

 

Wow...

Punctuation, sentence structure, grammar, spellcheck. All things more important for you right now than strut bearings.

 

punctuation wouldn't kill you
but that setup might
please post pictars

fpfq

 

Nice how about, suck it!!!! Was that proper enough? Have a small phone and was trying to share some knowledge didnt really care about proper grammer and spell check has been deleted just for ******** such as urself!!! Hows that structure? Didnt think i was in english class so grow up either learn from someone elses knowledge and add some help or positive thoughts but take ur condesending tone and stick up ur toyota driving butt! What a life u have nocking down someone elses thoughts because they didnt type the way you thought they should big man??!! I was being sarcastic if ur too stupid to tell thanks for the encouragement now go throw urself and any kids u have from a cliff so that the rest of us normal people can not have to deal with ur special ed ass! Or go back to ur teachers union that cares more about its contract than what kind of education our kids get.

 

do you have any clue how difficult it is to read a huge wall of run on text?

its obvious after posting up that mess and by your response you came in here for a fight so have fun with that

 

Not posted pics from phone have a few but dont know how to get them on the site not a computer guy just have a smart phone no computer been wanting to post pics of my ride on garage sorry bout type format phone is kinda small and the keyboard eats most of screen cant see most of words and dont wanna spend two hours editting everything but the fix for strut is solid and worked like a charm if i had had epoxy would have used that. But funds being what they are i used what i had and its some pretty stout glue and sticks to anything, even abs plastic that usually needs to have pvc primer to glue. I have been up since 4 this morning and dont have my glasses on and fingers are covered in superglue so cant even feel the screen next time i will try to have better grammer just been a really long day

 

And no it wont kill me the mounts havent moved and the only thing that could happen is spring perch move around on strut mount but no more than it did when plastic bearing sheared off! I drove this thing like a f1driver around some pretty off camber tight turns and that was only after about 20 seriously tight yanks and counteryanks in the empty high school parking lot this is one of the only front wheel drive cars that the rear can slide out before the front starts to plow have ran scca before in a mini so i know what i am doing when it comes to thrashing a car without rolling or crashing it! I have been a mechanic for 20 yrs and if u have ever had one of these mounts apart there is plenty of flat space to glue to and whats wrong with glue? Newer snowmobiles are put together with glue! Locktight industrial adhesive to be exact and if u have ever glued anything with sucess the best chances u have are to glue on differnt axis. I mean like not only the bottom but sides. I have worked on industrial machines that run 10,000 parts a shift that use super glue to hold a very specific spacer on parts hold shaft for gear machining and that glue would outlast the plastic washer that was there for tolerance reasons and it was a constant lube machine aswell so constantly covered in oil but was cleaned when washer was installed. It was more dangerous when my steering would lock up mid turn with the old bearings broke! The peroblem was that the bearing came apart during a ride on lift now the added height in bearing now keeps itself together.

 

Like i said in first post if glue scares people then tack weld the race to perch and the base of bearing to bottom of mount there is a small ridge in center of mount tha will need to be ground down to let bearing sit flat on mount but is the same thing just different bonding agent a tapered rolled bearing is not only a bearing for a different design but is specificly for side loading conditions is why they are used for wheel bearing and they are self centering either way i took a plastic broke ass cheap part and replaced it with something that if you use the right grease will last longer than the suspension! And wont shear off and my steering wheel doesnt shake when i accelerate its the little things that bother us. Like the wheel well gap between tire and fender or quarter so we lower it?....... it has to hold til feb not a big deal then going coilover so its a means to an end.

 

Specifically*. If your gonna be a douche, then go to another forum and bitch.

 

You've probably got some good knowledge and tips in here but I can't read it as is, my head hurts a bit after trying to read that last one.

 

The amount of effort you're putting into this, you know you can just buy a new strut mount for about $40 right?

No excuse for your incoherent ramblings. I have a finger all bandaged up from surgery last week and it's not letting me type properly with both hands. I just go a little slower and still try to break it up into a sensible formatting that is easy to read. This isn't school, but it's also not a bunch of cavemen throwing rocks and poking the ground with sticks.

 

Just posting to say I read about 1% of op's posts before giving up

 

I'm not even going to try to read that, blink once and you have to start over.

 

Not gonna lie if you're typing on a cell phone wouldn't you want it to be short and to the point? (not talking about you ItalianJoe I know you know you stuff and them some)

 

I almost had hotdog come out my nose when I read this, haha!