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Re: Spit Front Upper Ball Joint: help needed

To: spitfires@autox.team.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Spit Front Upper Ball Joint: help needed
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:50:09 -0500
At 08:58 PM 11/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>At 06:36 PM 11/10/99 -0500, Tony Gordon wrote:
>
> The tapered part is so loose that it doesn't want to grip the taper in the 
>top of the vertical link (and I hope the taper in the link isn't knackered 
>and is still servicable after all all!) and so we're having a lot of fun 
>trying to undo the nyloc nut which twirls away quite happily without budging 
>an inch.   Have tried "holding" the upper wishbone and the link together
... >no luck, the nut still spins. 

Tony,

   2 other options:

1. Can you get a nut buster in there and split the nut?

2. What about a cutting wheel on a die grinder and cutting the nut?

John

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