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Originally Posted by byndbad914
Interesting that the taper reamed in the bottom of the Vette spindle didn't work with a 10 deg tapered Howe ball joint but the upper BJ works with a 10 deg ream... you sure about that? The stock upper and lower BJ seem to have the same taper to me.
I bought a 1.5"/ft (7 deg) reamer and got the lower spindle eyes reamed to that and put the Coleman lowers pins in and those fit pretty well. I now need to get the upper BJs out which is a PITA at this point - I have a press but the KPI of the spindle and so forth make it so I can't get lined up on the BJ to press it out (the lower end of the spindle hits the fricken press) so I may look into borrowing a puller tool at the FLAPS and see if I can get something setup to work. Nonetheless, I need to get them out and make a plug pressed back in with the taper reamed into it for my uppers.
I will have to get some pics in the future - been really busy lately and have a vacation planned next weekend so hope to be back on it in a couple weeks.
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I measured the upper taper with a micrometer -- got 2.02 in./ft.. After I ran the taper reamer through the rod end, and inserted the upper ball joint, it appeared to fit perfectly. I painted the ball joint tapered shaft with a Sharpie, inserted it tightly, and rotated it. It scraped the Sharpie mark from top to bottom. By the way, I talked to the guys at Pfadt a while back, and they told me they had never had failure issues with the upper C6 ball joint -- not as much strain on it as the lower.
Pappy