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On 27 Jul 99, at 21:08, Henrik Larsson wrote: > > I was looking in one of the boxes with parts that came together with my > 1964 Notch and I found three new balljoints. I have understood that my car > (VIN 259190) has the older style balljoints and that cars built later in > 1964 have the new style. > > The boxes containing the balljoints have hand-written labels, which are a > bit confusing: > > Lower balljoint - VW 1500 1962-1965 > > Upper balljoint - VW 1500, 1600 1961-1967 > > Does this make sense? Is there any way to identify if the balljoints are > correct for my car (without dissasembling the car of course :-) )? I THINK the tapered fit into the torsion arms didn't change, but that the cylindrical fit into the steering knuckles got bigger. I measured a pair of late ones and the uppers are 16mm, lowers are 18mm. What are yours? > By the way, will my old style balljoints prevent me from using later > disc-brake spindles? If I'm right about what changed, you should be able to switch to disks if you also switched to the late ball joints. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe