75LandYacht
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Great work.. I’ll send mine right over lol…
I’m now ready to install the upper ball joints. I bought the special socket and I’ll be threading these on off the car on a vise. So I had something fabricated to mount the control arm to and secure it to the vise. Should make the job easy. View attachment 507466View attachment 507467 View attachment 507468
Very pretty work, but I'm concerned a bit for the new upper control arm bushings when you torque that upper ball joint into the control arm! I recall reading somewhere that one shouldn't subject the upper bushings to this, as it may damage them.
I find a loss in torque when using bushings as a mount, I clamp arm in vice with some protection. What I was thinking for your mounting jig was to do it when bushings are out of arm and using a a steel shaft the diameter of control arm bushing diameter with a slight give for slip install. No loss in torque or risk of beating bushings.
Lube goes along why for ball joint install.
So now moving onto the upper control arms. I bought this kit and 1 5/8 View attachment 507461 View attachment 507462 View attachment 507464 View attachment 507465 socket and the job was a piece of cake. Here I’ll show installing my new moog bushings since I had already removed my old bushings.
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