<VV> Unusual

[Michael Kovacs]

 Bill,

These were definitely screwed in. I watched my favorite (trusted 20 years) 
mechanic take it out with a BIG pipe wrench. It went back in with just a water 
pump pliers. That is why I'm having the new threaded ones installed.

 I've had the car since the late 70's and haven't touched the ball joints since. 
It's an every day driver so a bit more will be done while they are in there to 
keep it going an other 46 years!!.

 No rust yet.

 MIKE KOVACS




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From: Bill & Chris Strickland <lechevrier at q.com>
To: kovacsmj at sbcglobal.net
Sent: Wed, January 11, 2012 7:18:01 PM
Subject: Unusual

The threaded ball joints were probably       pressed in by some one who didn't 
notice the threads, or lack       thereof -- press in joints would probably work 
fine if they didn't       wallow or broach the hole out getting the threaded 
ones installed. 


They make sockets to fit the screw-in joints, and a brutish type       with a 
big air gun can simply ruin a lower control arm trying to       drill a threaded 
joint into it.  Hard to say what happened --       maybe your got a car repaired 
with early parts after taking on a       curb ...

Bill Strickland