Front lower ball joints

[waynemex]

Bought mine from Reno.

They were that expensive though James? Both sides with the whole wishbone and joints were around £80 each?

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as I said, order the complete wishbone and the ball joint supplied on it will not be the corect one, it will be a standard Clio item, angles will be all wrong. You need to also order the correct ball joint on its own and remove and discard the one supplied, sounds crazy I know. Not sure where James price cam from, they are around £107 each IIRC. Whatever, in my case it was just a split rubber seal= much expense.

If its just the rubber seal that was split as an mot fail, the rubbers can be bought separate, I have seen them in autojumble stores and I know some motor factors can supply them too. If the ball joint was worn, then guess you have to bite the bullet!

 

[tarmac terrorist]

Any development on these wishbones chap?

 

[Steve-V6-D61]

Hi

Here my 10 pence worth back when I used to rally a Triumph TR7V8, I had some lower arms modified, cut off the ball joint fiitng hole and had tig welded threaded blocks fitted that took a rose joint then had a pair of theaded tappered insterts made to bolt in to the rose joint, I even had a rubber boot over the joint to keep the worst of the muck out of it. Think the joints were a £10 each

Even get extra camber adjustment too and OH so cheap.

So make up some blocksto bolt to the wishbome and some tappered inserts and hey presto **** Renault [smilie=icon_exclaim.gif] .

That s why I am having road springs made, Renault £192 each, UK made £60 each and any lenght or rating too.

Why not do a group buy on them and make a bunch up. If price is right, I may well buy a set just to put in the spares dept.

How about this part

HONDA
51270-SF1-003

Criteria
Fitting Position: Front Axle, Upper, Left and right, Outer
Cone Size [mm]: 13

HONDA:
PRELUDE III (BA)
2.0 EX (BA4) (80 kW ; 04/1987 - 01/1992)
2.0 (BA4) (84 kW ; 08/1987 - 01/1992)
2.0 i EX 16V (BA2) (101 kW ; 04/1986 - 12/1987)
2.0 i EX 16V (BA4) CAT (101 kW ; 04/1987 - 01/1992)
2.0 i EX 16V (BA4) (103 kW ; 04/1990 - 01/1992)
2.0 i EX 16V (101 kW ; 04/1986 - 12/1987)
2.0 i EX 16V (110 kW ; 10/1987 - 12/1990)




Cheers

Steve

 

[Eastlmark]

judging by the image, that nut looks way smaller than the clio item.

 

[tarmac terrorist]

My theory was to use the rear balljoint as it is £30. And the uprights are common front/rear. I'm thinking of getting a fab shop to bolt up a wishbone and upright then make the jig from it. Cheap and repeatable when it comes to doctoring the existing lower arms. Or even making up something completely new. I did look at speherical joints but with the articulation angles involved they appear to be going past their design limits.

How many people would be interested in this? As with all small batch jobs - the more you get the less the parts cost...

 

[Steve-V6-D61]

I found a guy that drills a 5mm hole in your ball joint and fills the void with a liquid polimer plastic and then fits a grease nipple, at £35 per joint, sound a bit dodgey to me, but it may work, his contact is 07766091233

its your call !!!

 

[tarmac terrorist]

I found a guy that drills a 5mm hole in your ball joint and fills the void with a liquid polimer plastic and then fits a grease nipple, at £35 per joint, sound a bit dodgey to me, but it may work, his contact is 07766091233

its your call !!!

- hmmmmm, i'm not that keen to save on renault parts prices

 

[k1ano]

I found a guy that drills a 5mm hole in your ball joint and fills the void with a liquid polimer plastic and then fits a grease nipple, at £35 per joint, sound a bit dodgey to me, but it may work, his contact is 07766091233

its your call !!!

Sounds like the old trick of putting banana skins in an air cooled VW beetle engine to disguise rattling needle bearings :rofl:

Martin