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2 events 2 broken ball joints... ? 14 years, 1 month ago #8327

SvoChuck OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 802	heads up steel A arm cars... I'm thinking after market ball joints should be replaced every year or every other. both cars were fixed during the weekend but what a pain for such a low cost part.
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Re: 2 events 2 broken ball joints... ? 14 years, 1 month ago #8328

joepaluch OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 1483	Interesting. I have been running the same ball joints on my steel arm car since 2003. I wonder if there were just bad joints that failed. How did they fail? Any pictures?
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Re: 2 events 2 broken ball joints... ? 14 years, 1 month ago #8329

SvoChuck OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 802	they both broke where the bolt goes through to hold them to the spindle (the smallest part. one of the cars had a small off before it broke the second one did not have an off.
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Re: 2 events 2 broken ball joints... ? 14 years, 1 month ago #8330

Bamf3000 OFFLINE Junior Racer Posts: 45	where were you buying the ball joints from? I'll stay away from there lol
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Re: 2 events 2 broken ball joints... ? 14 years, 1 month ago #8331

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I had two relatively new ball joints fail on my alu arms a couple of years ago. Both were the same age and both broke on the same weekend.

Probably from china

I have not had any failures since then.

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Re: 2 events 2 broken ball joints... ? 14 years, 1 month ago #8333

Big Dog OFFLINE Banned Posts: 700	There are at least two different versions of ball joints available. I had the cheap ones (low cost racing:laugh:). I "sold" one to Charlie. He called me on having the cheap one instead of the better version so I switched over to the better version and have had no issues. Jim
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