James, I've done the same before. You will have to do the bolt up tight
again an clean the threads. All I had to do to get the thing from
turning was to hold by hand, really tightly, so that it seats back into
the tapered hole.
Failing that, you could use a nut splitter but that would be very
drastic.
Vic Whitmore
76 Spitfire
Thornhill, Ontario
James wrote:
>
> I seem to have made a mistake removing the upper ball joint, one that is
> realy horible. I was removing the ball joint to check it etc when I hit
> apon a problem. I had not removed all the stuff from the thread, and
> the bolt ceased 1/8 th of an inch up. So I used a bit more force, and
> the whole ball joint ended up turning. This is not good, because I know
> have no way of doing up or un-doing the joint. Also the fact that this
> was a good one, realy gets me.
>
> First, don't do what I did.
>
> Second, Help? :-{
>
> Is there anything on the tapered bit that I could grab hold of, I have
> only about 1/8th to 1/4 of an inch play.
>
> Should I hit the ball joint back in, to try and lock it, to do up the
> bolt again, and forget about taking it out? Or take it in, cleen up the
> thread and re-try.
>
> Is there anyway to remove he nylon from a nyloc nut?
>
> --
> James Carpenter
> Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
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