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Old 10-15-2008, 09:33 PM   #4
RunninLo
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Re: Ball joints up side down??

sadly I have heard of this. In addition to being swapped driver for passenger they should also be upsidedown. The arm has a slight bend up in it right before the area where the BJ is installed. On lowered applications with the arm angled up more than stock that bend can cause the ball joints to bind sooner.
The "cheap" fix is to flip the arms as described so now that bend is down thus alowing the upper arm to acheive a more upward angle before binding the ball joint.
Obviously the correct way to fix this is with an aftermarket arm or high angle ball joint.
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