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    HELP Ball joint flip problems VX on blocks!!!!!

    So I am in the middle of a ball joint flip and everything goes smooth and then as I go to tighten the flange nut to bring the UCA and the LCA back together, the flange nut is just spining with the threaded shaft of the ball joint!!!!! What is happening? Help please..... as for now I am sitting on the driveway completly lost.....

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    Try taking it apart, cleaning the threads on the ball joint & nut, attach the ball joint & get it tight, THEN attach it to the upper control arm by wrestling it down with a big crescent wrench (see pics in my gallery) then attach with the four bolts that hold the ball joint to the UCA.
    Last edited by Ldub : 06/27/2009 at 06:06 AM

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    perfect thanks got it and it is back together flipped and all

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    Cool

    Quote Originally Posted by LittleBeast View Post
    perfect thanks got it and it is back together flipped and all


    ............


    You owe me one...next time I enter an olympic trial, I'm a gonna need lots of help....

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    So Ldub, what sport, 16oz curls?? I lived in England and got a bronze in 20oz curls. God I love imperial measurements. Should of seen my biceps.
    Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace... Never mind "Paris to Dakar", the VehiCROSS looks ready for the Martian desert.

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    http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...all+joint+flip

    Looks like LDub has helped some people with this problem before.

    Yeah I owe you some Pole Vault lessons. Let me know, that seems like your style, you know running balls to the wall and then planting and you know that whole going upside thing..... LOL

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