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RE: ball joints

To: "Hall, Phillip" <Phillip.B.Hall@MSFC.NASA.GOV>
Subject: RE: ball joints
From: "Patrick J. Horne" <horne@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 10:54:41 -0500 (CDT)
There are some Honda joints that have the correct taper.

Peace,
Pat

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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Hall, Phillip wrote:

> Ok, another idea - use the old joint and bore out the guts, rethread the
> hole to except those universal thread-in ball joints or press in joints the
> racers use.  The taper in the spindle may have to be changed, but easy to
> do.  One may luck up and get the right taper joint.  With all these joints,
> it is starting to sound like a Cheech and Chong move:)
>
> Phil
> SEROC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick J. Horne [mailto:horne@cs.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:35 AM
> To: sidney raper
> Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: ball joints
>
>
> There was a post a few months about that, but I don't seem to have saved
> the message and a search of the archive didn't come up with it either.
>
> As I recall you had to drill a couple of new holes in the A-frame to mount
> them, but they did fit. I don't recall the year or model.
>
> Peace,
> Pat
>
> - Support Habitat for Humanity, A "hand up", not a "hand out" -
>
> Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor, Future planner
> CS Dept, University of Texas, Austin, Tx. 78712 USA
> voice (512)471-9730, fax (512)471-8885, horne@cs.utexas.edu
>
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, sidney raper wrote:
>
> > Didn't someone find that volvo ball joints were very similar??
> >
> > Sid
> >
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