slid on the Ice and bit the curb, steering components Options

[VavAlephVav]

So we had some super slick ice the other morning, I was zippin down the interstate at 80mph , like I normally do, then I got up to a point where they had both dirrections of the highway closed. At that point I decided I was gonna call the boss and tell him I'm turning around and going home.
then I got off the highway and took a shortcut through the parking lot of the abandoned supermarket, and I suddenly realized they had not treated this parking lot and I was only doing about 10 mph when I suddenly slid sideways into the curb. the front rim took most of the hit pretty much square on from the drivers side.
Its been too cold to take the wheel off and get a good look at it, but now my steering wheel is a bit more crooked than it was, and it makes some noise when driving like the CV joint.

So what are the main components you think would have taken the most damage? Iv put it on a jack and jiggled the wheel so I don't think the wheel bearing is bad. if I rotate the wheel by hand with it in neutral it feels just like the other side, but if I spin the wheel while its in gear I feel a little clunk, clunk on that side. but the CV may have been bad in the first place, now realy bad.
But do you think It may have bent one of the tie-rodds? hopefully not something in the racknpinion

[VavAlephVav]

So I got to take the front end apart and fix it last night
Special thanks to my friend who has a garage and a lot of nifty tools including his own press

Unfortunately I wasn't able to the whole job including the struts : /
but I can wait for another month or so
In the mean time I had the CV axle, outer tie-rod, and ball-joint, once we got it apart we saw for sure it was indeed a wasted wheel bearing
and the ball joint was pretty weak too




I'd say this one is toast


damnit the inner race separated from the rest of the bearing and stayed on the spindle, now how are we gonna get that off?



then he whips out his dremel tool with a little bitty cutting wheel and zips right through it

technically the surface of the spindle and the knuckle were worn just a bit, we measured 0.064 off in a few spots
maybe a professional would insist on replacing them but I didn't think it was bad enough, and wasn't about to scrounge the U-pick-it lot when it just snowed and -30* wind chils
so we just put it back together and its just fine

we pressed the bearing out/in ourselves instead of taking it to a shop( it was Sunday), my friend wanted an excuse to use his press,
but really he ended up using his ball joint press kit instead,
very similar to this one but bigger with a whole bunch of different sizes

http://www.harborfreight.com/ball-joint-se...icles-4065.html

now that I have it back together it sounds and feels much better, still a bit squirrely 'till I get it aligned
but now I can here another little noise and I think it's the rear wheel bearing on that side, I smacked it into the curb at the same time I'm gonna assume I need to change it too.