By Paul Krummenacker (216.26.39.192) on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 10:39 pm:

part of my whole front end disassembly was to replace the brake disks, as well as track down a creak in the front. In taking apart thins, it turns out that one of the front ball joints is groaning. I want to know, is it possible to just replace the ball joint, rather than the whole control arm assembly (done that before).

With rallying I know I'll blow up ball joints on a regular basis, I want to know if I can just replace the joint, rather than the whole arm.

thanks
Paul

By errol (64.12.106.33) on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 11:20 pm:

JC Whitney used to sell them for about 40.00US

By Paul Krummenacker (12.145.208.12) on Monday, September 24, 2001 - 10:50 am:

hmmm... I'm going to take my spare control arm down to a machine shop and see if we can figure out some way to make a mount to hold a larger, more robust, easier to change, style of ball joint.

If we can figure it out, I'll post pictures and tips.

Paul