04-17-2019, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by maslin
Something has to be tweaked, it's not bad luck 4 parts in. MacPherson struts are simple, that's why they're so prevalent. The strut is the upper control arm. The LCA locates the lower ball joint, the strut and spindle hold everything up and down. Not a whole lot going on.
Or the same guy is doing the job every time and butchering it?
If the spindle/upright/whatever Toyota calls is were to be bent it could side load the strut and cause a leak?
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Yep. Something is side loading it somehow. There is no way that it just coincidently blew 4 like that even if the worst installer in the world worked on it.
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