[DeTomaso] Lower ball joints

[Mike Drew]

...and FWIW, while I have seen many A-arm bushings whose visible portions were suffering from rotting and cracking, inevitably when changing them out I find that the  areas that are doing the actual work are still perfectly fine. I have only seen one car that arguably ‘needed’ new A-arm bushings and it had almost 200k on it!

Mike

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> On Feb 2, 2019, at 14:19, Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
> 
> Joe,
> 
> I routinely help people replace all their ball joints and A arm bushings because people buy complete kits. Honestly, I have only ever seen the lower front balljoints go bad. Every upper front and rear balljoints I have changed out has still been perfectly good, apart from the rubber boot. 
> 
> If I was on a budget I would only buy lower fronts, plus new boots for the uppers. 
> 
> Mike
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>> On Feb 2, 2019, at 11:32, Joseph F. Byrd, Jr. <byrdjf at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> While the failure could be the result of poor quality of the part, I would
>> wonder it there may be something with the installed fit that is
>> contributing.
>> Joe
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf
>> Of Sean Korb
>> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2019 12:44 PM
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>> Subject: [DeTomaso] Lower ball joints
>> 
>> #1382 has sess than 40k miles on the clock but I was changing out my front
>> calipers this morning and discovered.... I have bad front lower ball joints.
>> 
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