Ball joints?
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Burning Brakes
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Ball joints?
Is it normal for the lower ball joint to have a little up and down play? I jacked my car up to look at a few things. I couldent move the wheel up and down with my hands at all, but when I used the jack arm for leverage I got a tiny bit of up down play on both sides. Is this normal?
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Are you sure its coming from teh ball joints? There shouldnt be any play
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Burning Brakes
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
Are you sure its coming from teh ball joints? There shouldnt be any play
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Burning Brakes
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Now that I think about it, I think they are fine. My car drives straight, no squeeking, no clunking when going over bumps. Only thing I have is a slight steering wheel vibration and a random click when making slow sharp right hand turns (which I believe is my passenger side cv joint).
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Originally Posted by probmxstyle
Pretty sure, its only about 2mm of movement. I could see the boot around the ball joint expanding slightly.
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Originally Posted by adamlee05
That
and you bad vibrations when steering
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So there not supposed to move at all? I couldent get movement whatsoever with my hands, only when I stuck a lever under the tire and pulled up did i get anything to move. And that was a good amount of force.
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when my started to squeak, my mechanic replaced it. when he was replacing it he mentioned that it also had some play. btw, he replaced it with after market ball joint, and its lasting me much longer than OEM ones did in the past.
#10
Burning Brakes
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Originally Posted by russianDude
when my started to squeak, my mechanic replaced it. when he was replacing it he mentioned that it also had some play. btw, he replaced it with after market ball joint, and its lasting me much longer than OEM ones did in the past.
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Originally Posted by probmxstyle
Is it normal for the lower ball joint to have a little up and down play?
its never good to restrict your ball joints
but i never knew balls had joints, let alone a lower and upper.. kinda like fast and slow right? i do that all the time. never had a problem with my ball joints
thats a good question though.
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