[Healeys] No Healey question- Ford ball joints

Tracy Drummond bighealey at charter.net
Thu Jan 10 13:37:52 MST 2013


Perfect.

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On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:06 AM, David Nock <healeydoc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Remember always when checking ball joints that you can not have the
suspension hanging under tension. You need to take the weight on the lower
control arm the there is no weight on the ball joint and then fell the play.
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> David Nock
> British Car Specialists
> Stockton Ca 95205
> 209-948-8767
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> www.britishcarspecialists.com
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> Please feel free to view an interview with the Nock's in 2009
> 	Enjoy
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTTRYkbQzs
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> On Jan 10, 2013, at 6:24 AM, Tracy Drummond wrote:
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>> Bob,
>>
>> Same as F150s and 250s I believe.
>>
>> I replaced a pair last year.  About 75$ in parts and 2 hours per side.
>> These are notoriously high wear for some reason.
>>
>> Tracy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
>> On Behalf Of Bob Johnson
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 7:56 AM
>> To: Healeys
>> Subject: [Healeys] No Healey question- Ford ball joints
>>
>> Does this sound reasonable? So I took my truck in to get a front end
>> alignment and inspection (in NC) at the same time. They did not do the
>> alignment because the lower ball joints were to worn to do an alignmnet.
>> New ball joints are almost $560 installed. But then, however, the ball
>> joints were not so worn that the truck did pass inspection. Really?
>>
>> Bob Johnson
>> who obviously kept the Healey so I could work on it because I have a big
>> distrust for repair shops maybe?
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