Lower Ball Joint
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jikelly
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geostang351
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I believe the lower ball joints are riveted in place? Thus, the entire arm would need to be replaced.
I believe the lower ball joints are riveted in place? Thus, the entire arm would need to be replaced.
I couldnt find them online at any mustang vendors, and I also looked at Advance Auto Parts website with no luck. I just find it hard to believe that Ford didnt think this through...why would they make it to where you would have to replace the whole control arm when ball joints are a part that should be replaced every so often...
68stang351
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Because ford built these cars to last 5 years and not 40. Why do you think we are all repairing our leaking cowls? Because Ford didn't paint or protect them at all as they were expected to only last for a few years. Same for the ball joints.
jikelly
20+ Year Stangneter
There are bolt on ball joints for the lower control arm, but mustangs originally came with them riveted in place, and it is not fun to remove those rivets.
The whole arm can't cost that much, and you would have the extra comfort of knowing you had new ones.
Oh and screw advance auto parts. They totally hosed me on a steering gearbox.
Store manager:
"You should have come by and check to see if the part was in."
Me:
"I did check in with your people, everyday for the last two weeks I either came by or called."
Store manager:
"No you didn't, or you would have your part."
Me (surprised by the managers raising voice and sudden hostility):
"Huh?"
"Did you even order my parts?"
Store Manager:
"You never came in to pick them up. It's your fault you didn't get your part."
Me (figuring it out):
"Ok well if you didn't want to replace the defective part you sold me before you should have just said so and I would have gone elsewhere to get what I need, like I'm going to do now."
Store Manager:
"Good!"
Me:
"Thanks."
Man was I pissed. I haven't been back since and that was three years ago now.
The whole arm can't cost that much, and you would have the extra comfort of knowing you had new ones.
Oh and screw advance auto parts. They totally hosed me on a steering gearbox.
Store manager:
"You should have come by and check to see if the part was in."
Me:
"I did check in with your people, everyday for the last two weeks I either came by or called."
Store manager:
"No you didn't, or you would have your part."
Me (surprised by the managers raising voice and sudden hostility):
"Huh?"
"Did you even order my parts?"
Store Manager:
"You never came in to pick them up. It's your fault you didn't get your part."
Me (figuring it out):
"Ok well if you didn't want to replace the defective part you sold me before you should have just said so and I would have gone elsewhere to get what I need, like I'm going to do now."
Store Manager:
"Good!"
Me:
"Thanks."
Man was I pissed. I haven't been back since and that was three years ago now.
geostang351
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CraigMBA
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There's cheap.
And there's too cheap.
And there's "I'm boxing my stock pieces and installing a spherical bearing in lieu of the bushing" to which I'd tell you to buy some screw in oval track style ball joints from Speedway.........
And there's too cheap.
And there's "I'm boxing my stock pieces and installing a spherical bearing in lieu of the bushing" to which I'd tell you to buy some screw in oval track style ball joints from Speedway.........
Breaking those rivets (although I remember them to be more like a spot weld, but it's been 20 years) is not fun, plus I remember being afraid of damaging the control arm itself while trying to break the welds. And we didn't even attempt to change the pivot bushing. I got my ball joints from Kanter suspension, but I'm not real sure they are around anymore. Plus they didn't last very long. Mustangs were made to be affordable, and that included making the control arms out of stamped metal as opposed to something more substaintial/expensive that could support a screwed or pressed in ball joint. Something we have to deal with. Just replace the whole arm, but find one with USA/NA components if you can.
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