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Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:14 pm

So when I rebuilt my beam I thought I would go ahead and replace my lower ball joints that had slight play in them.

I went ahead and bought the ones from cip1 that were for lowered vehicles.

I thoght I had read before some one had posted only use german ones but maybe I am remembering wrong.

Well I pressed them ball joints in here at work they went right in wich was no surprise since I used the shop press.

Funny thing was I put my beam back on and went to drop the spindle onto the lower ball joint and it fell right out on the floor. I was shocked thought to myself I must have a worn out control arm. So I jumped to the other side dropped the spindle on the ball joint fell out of that side.

So I guess these aftermarket joints are just not manufactured properly but the disclosure on the add said that they were going to be hard to get in and may require in larging the hole.

Any way I am rambling on what lower ball joint brand do you guys recommened and what company is the best to buy them from??

Thanks
Shawn

Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:58 pm

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