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The balls themselves wear out, causing the sloppiness. The clips only serve to keep the sockets on the ball. As I was reading Ben's suggestion, design ideas floated inside my head, and the though of fabricating a shell from plastic struck an empty spot on the skull. Yikes, a not-so-pleasant item to fabricate. Thinking of the various odd and to-everyone-else junk I have in my garage, I thought of something I've had for years, that might fit this application. I have a roll of Teflon tape, adhesive on one side (how did they do that anyway?). Snip off a small piece, and with the sticky side to the socked side, push the ball end into place with the Teflon side to the ball. One would have to experiment with how much tape to use. Too much = won't fit and might be too much friction. Too little = no benefits. My Sqbk isn't running at the moment, but if anyone would like to try this out, pmail me with your request and I'll give you my address so you can send me a self addressed envelope. I can mail a small piece to you. If this works, I probably have enough to supply the entire list. Anyone want to try this? Short of this remedy, grease those ball joints, as oil falls out. Use a high temp grease. The high temps in the engine compartment will melt out low temp stuff. Jeff '67 Sqbk -----Original Message----- From: "Ben Doughney" <ben_d@clear.net.nz> > I have wondered though- would it be possible to get some sort of half round > nylon bushing that could clip over the ball and take up the slack? Mine are > worn too, particularly on the short linkages that go from the choke lever > down to the throttle shaft. I am not sure weather the balls are worn or the > sockets, but if there was something that could be clipped in there it > wouldn't matter, and take up the slack of both. Interesting idea Ben. I haven't really spent that much time looking at the balls themselves- they may well be fine. I wondered about somehow tightening up the spring clip in the ball housing- or maybe your idea- maybe a small nylon washer atop the ball to force the ball tighter against the clip? ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/