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Old 10-16-2008, 12:18 PM   #6
RunninLo
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Re: Ball joints up side down??

well in practice it's not the worst thing. The ball joints still function normally and have their strength. All other facets of the suspension are functioning normally. While the engineers at GM never designed the arm to work that way as long as you don't overload the front end it should be fine. If you can find an open minded alignment tech to get it into spec for tire wear purposes and you don't notice excessive bump steer or other ill effects it should work fine until a more suitible solution can be implemented.

Basically while it's not ideal it is better than binding the ball joint and there's no need to park the truck in the mean time.

Josh
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