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TR7 BFH Inner ball-joint shim

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Subject: TR7 BFH Inner ball-joint shim
From: Eganb@aol.com
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:09:04 EDT
This message may only be appropriate for fellow TR7 owners.

If you've read my latest emails, you know I have a LOT of play in the 
passenger-side inner ball joint assembly on my TR7.  So much play in fact 
that I wonder if the little spacer/bushing and washer inside the assembly, 
that the end of the ball pushes against, is missing.  

My Bentley manual shows the spacer/bushing and washer.  It looks like when 
you unscrew the two outer-parts of the assembly, you can replace them.  But 
the catalogs just sell the whole new ball-joint assembly.

So, if you know what I'm talking about, and you have an old inner-ball joint 
assembly from a TR7, could you see if you can separate the parts and discover 
whether there is a spacer/bushing and washer in there?  

Yeah, I know, JUST BUY THE BLOODY INNER BALL JOINTS!!!!!

But this is so much more challenging...  

Bruce
1980 Inca Yellow TR7 5-speed convertible
Chapel Hill, NC

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