I wouldn't want to play with lower bjs in any car I drive. I had one
collapse on me almost 30 years ago and the only thing that kept me in one
piece is that I was going very slowly because of traffic.
I just bought a new set of lower ones from Nissan about 4 months ago. Are
they now NLA? The uppers can be tightened down and I've never seen an upper
bj go bad although they can get notchy.
Use a shop press to press the lower metal to tighten up the lower ones but
not too much.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hall, Phillip" <Phillip.B.Hall@MSFC.NASA.GOV>
To: "'Patrick J. Horne'" <horne@cs.utexas.edu>; "Roadsters (E-mail)"
<Datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: ball joints
> Ok, another idea - use the old joint and bore out the guts, rethread the
> hole to except those universal thread-in ball joints or press in joints
the
> racers use. The taper in the spindle may have to be changed, but easy to
> do. One may luck up and get the right taper joint. With all these
joints,
> it is starting to sound like a Cheech and Chong move:)
>
> Phil
> SEROC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick J. Horne [mailto:horne@cs.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:35 AM
> To: sidney raper
> Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: ball joints
>
>
> There was a post a few months about that, but I don't seem to have saved
> the message and a search of the archive didn't come up with it either.
>
> As I recall you had to drill a couple of new holes in the A-frame to mount
> them, but they did fit. I don't recall the year or model.
>
> Peace,
> Pat
>
> - Support Habitat for Humanity, A "hand up", not a "hand out" -
>
> Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor, Future planner
> CS Dept, University of Texas, Austin, Tx. 78712 USA
> voice (512)471-9730, fax (512)471-8885, horne@cs.utexas.edu
>
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, sidney raper wrote:
>
> > Didn't someone find that volvo ball joints were very similar??
> >
> > Sid
> >
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