marc1130

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I curbed my car a week ago, the body shop told me I needed a new knuckle and bearing on the front passenger side, so I went to the junkyard today, and swapped one out. Now the wheel is at like a 70 degree angle inward, and it used to be 90 with the old bent knuckle.






Is the knuckle I replaced it with bent as well, is something else bent like the upper or lower control arm or can this be fixed with an alignment?

marc1130

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any ideas?

Pyro97

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It is possible you just got a bad part. I would take it back to the yard and see if you can compare it to another one and go from there.

hotrod_bljak

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I am with Pyro97. You can never really tell if a part that you get from the yard, is good or not. They might say it's good, but you can never really trust them. Good luck in finding a good part.

dj2005

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Bit OT but nice car, kept it in good shape. Hope you get it fixed (cheaply).

Low N Slow

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I would guess you have a bent upper control arm by looking at the angle of that wheel.

marc1130

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Long story short I'm never going to Clarksville Auto Center, in Clarksville, MD, for mechanical problems. They told me I had a bent knuckle and a broken wheel bearing and that it was going to be $1100 to fix. After replacing the knuckle/bearing from a junkyard and having a friend who works at a Chevy dealer look at it, we found out it was the lower control arm that needed to be replaced. I will be doing that job this weekend.