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Offline Chisholmcody

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Balljoint issue
« on: January 28, 2018, 08:04:55 PM »
So I was finally doing upper balljoint  son my 78 c10, got those in all fine and dandy but my question is with the lowers. I did the lower balljoints about 3 years ago and they have only seen maybe at the most 10k miles.

When I was doing my driver side upper balljoint I noticed the lower had become "unpressed" from its bore and was just hanging there (when the spindle was out of the upper) I tapped it back in lightly with a hammer and socket (doesn't seem like a pressed fit) seems like it won't come out of the control arm unless the nut comes off.  Do you guys think it's okay to run it like this? Or should I buy a new control arm or oversized balljoint ????





Thanks, cody


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Offline Chisholmcody

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Balljoint issue
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2018, 08:33:17 PM »
I ended up placing dimples with my air hammer kinda by where these red dots are but on the flange area all the way around. Seems to be a lot tighter!! 


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Re: Balljoint issue
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2018, 07:04:58 AM »
There is an oversized option as well
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Re: Balljoint issue
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2018, 10:55:18 AM »
There is an oversized option as well

I think that's the route I'm going to go, do wanna have a wrecked truck for being to cheap/ lazy lmao


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