Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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Moog used to make over sized uppers for stripped threads.
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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Moog used toi make over sized uppers for stripped threads. Were they “self tapping”? That sounds like a good plan.
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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I Remember MOOG offered those Ball Joints in the 70s -Early 80s . But fell out of favor like Air Shocks . Do you still have your Good Old Original MOPAR Arms ? Ronnie I picked up these replacements because the upper ball joint threads were in bad shape when I removes the old ball joint from the original. Same side. Bad luck.
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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Came across welded bj's in the past. 1/2 doz tack welds across the top would hold fairly well for street driving. All metal there, so nothing really gets damaged. Of course the grease needs replacing. This was pretty common back in the day. Welded lots of them.
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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UPDATE: In my searching, I see that the re-pop arms now carry a warning that says the K772 is too small and that the K772C is the correct replacement ball joint. COOL, wonder if it takes the same size socket? as I recall there were two different sizes, a body being small, b,e,c large
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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UPDATE: In my searching, I see that the re-pop arms now carry a warning that says the K772 is too small and that the K772C is the correct replacement ball joint. Thank you for posting that. Excellent info! . . . …but, why would these repro guys use an oversize ball joint on there repro parts? What ding-a-lings! All I can figure is careless design or they couldn’t figure out how to manufacture the threads exactly so the oversize was their fix ?
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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UPDATE: In my searching, I see that the re-pop arms now carry a warning that says the K772 is too small and that the K772C is the correct replacement ball joint. Interesting Went thru this same issue about five years ago with these Chinese reproduction uppers I just went to tighten or re torque what ever they where using for Chinese ball joints and they stripped out while I was applying torque The company that I purchased them from just sent me out new ones without any questions asked
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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UPDATE: In my searching, I see that the re-pop arms now carry a warning that says the K772 is too small and that the K772C is the correct replacement ball joint. Interesting Went thru this same issue about five years ago with these Chinese reproduction uppers I just went to tighten or re torque what ever they where using for Chinese ball joints and they stripped out while I was applying torque The company that I purchased them from just sent me out new ones without any questions asked Unfortunately I have been sitting on these for a few years now before I got around to installing.
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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UPDATE: In my searching, I see that the re-pop arms now carry a warning that says the K772 is too small and that the K772C is the correct replacement ball joint. Thank you for posting that. Excellent info! . . . …but, why would these repro guys use an oversize ball joint on there repro parts? What ding-a-lings! All I can figure is careless design or they couldn’t figure out how to manufacture the threads exactly so the oversize was their fix ? . I assume the same. Since one side took a K772 to full torque and the other side didn’t get past 40 ft-lbs, I imagine they have trouble holding a consistent tolerance and went to the larger Ball joint as an afterthought.
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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Re: Stripped Upper Ball Joint
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UPDATE: In my searching, I see that the re-pop arms now carry a warning that says the K772 is too small and that the K772C is the correct replacement ball joint. CO OL, wonder if it takes the same size socket? as I recall there were two different sizes, a body being small, b,e,c large I have 3 diff size Snap-on sockets one fur A, one I used on B&E and one I just used 2 or 3 times. Can't remember if it was Sea, or truck. The manager at Western Auto was a friend frim way back before he worked there and he would call.me when an old Mopar came in. He would tell.the young guys I know a guy. But anything I needed there was at cost and had use of the lift if needed. Then guts working there looked at me like I was from another planet when I asked for the 3/4 Impact.
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