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Re: [T3] Ball JOints


This is actually quite helpful, although It isnt a consice answer I wasnt
aware that any freeplay was OK.  Sounds like I need to add my Front end to
all the other systems that need to be gone through on my Square.  But Since
Ive had over 100Kmi of trouble free service I really cant complain.  I just
need to get it to Myrtle Creek and back :-)

Thanks,

Keith


> When the lowers are new, the play in them is nearly zero, but as the
(nylon?)
> cups in them wear, the springs advance the cups so that there is no
completely
> free play. Somewhere around 2.5mm later, faces of the plastic cups are
about to
> meet, and that's when the joints start to get "free" play. You're actually
fine
> as long as the joint is still spring loaded, but that is impossible to
tell
> with the joint mounted in the car and under torsion bar tension.
>
> I know this is probably not very clear, but it's really hard to describe
in
> typed words.
>
> -- 
> Jim Adney
> jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, WI 53711-3054
> USA
>
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