[Tigers] WARNING - ball joints
Wally Menke
walmenke at bigpond.net.au
Tue Oct 13 05:09:14 MDT 2009
Hi Ron and all
I'm the friend that Michael was referring to that recently had this issue.
Checking back I purchased these ball joints new in 1997. The car has only
been on the road for 21/2 years and covered about 5000 miles maximum.
I must admit that I wrongly assumed that they had been greased during
manufacture. In this time the rubber just disintegrated letting water and
crud in making it worse. I still had the original ball joints that came off
the car which were in excellent shape. So fitted these back on with a new
set of boots.
Amazing how easy the car turns now.
Cheers
Wally Menke
To All
I know Rick @ Sunbeam Specialties and Tiger Tom were wrestling with
manufacturing problems with the ball joints back in the mid 1990's
If you are looking at parts with cracked boots; it is very possible
you have some NOS parts or other that are beyond their self life for the
boots; BEWARE.
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