[DML] Next project.

["Stephen Jaeger" <sjaeger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just completed the change out of my trailing arm bolts so now it's on to my next project. Or actually it's back to my previous project. Last year I changed the upper and lower ball joints on my car. Now, I noticed that the rubber boot on the right side lower ball joint has split.

Taking the front suspension apart does not concern me since I did it once already. The problem is that during the alignment last time, the lower ball joints popped out of the control arms. The new ball joints did not come with spring clips to hold them in like the old ones. A quick call to the supplier confirmed this. He said I needed to install a shim around the ball joint so that it wedges tightly into the control arm. The alignment shop never heard of this. So I had the shop press them back in and tack weld them in place (I read about that somewhere). Now, in order to replace the ball joint this time I need to grind off the welds. I don't want to go through this again, so my question is, what has others done to lock in the ball joints into the control arms to prevent this from happening?

Thanks
Steve

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