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12-08-2018 #1
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Press in ball joint replacement on GW UCAs
Hey guys, I have an email into Global West and would've called but cust support isnt open on weekends. Anyway, on my Cutlass I have the GW neg roll upper control arms and am curious if anyone has replaced the press in ball joints they have. There doesnt seem to be a lot of meat to get leverage in order to press them out. There isnt anything wrong with the ball joint I was curious if swapping to a tall ball joint would be feasible. Thanks!
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12-10-2018 #2
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Welp, just got off the phone with GW and the ball joint has a weld in retaining ring and if it needs to be replaced for any reason they recommend sending it back to them and having them do it. Plus, even if I could get the ball joint out GW doesnt have a tall ball joint they can recommend for this UCA. GW uses a Moog k6157, which is actually a lower ball joint, if anyone was curious.
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12-18-2018 #3
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Originally Posted by Chocolate Apocalypse
Ok so the GW arms probably have engineering to fix issues and the tall ball joints would mess up their current designed in fixes.
Make sure adding tall bj doenst completely mess up the fixed geometry. Just sayin,,,,Lee Abel
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12-18-2018 #4
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Oh I know, I bit the bullet and ordered SpeedTech spindles and steering arms instead of going with stock height spindles so no need for tall ball joints now.
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12-19-2018 #6
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My wallet isn't happy with me but it never is lol
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