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[kwhizz]

Update........This car stuff is hard....LOL..... So....After getting the car pretty much sorted out, I started driving it more and everything was back to normal.....except for one thing.......In driving the car on the Highway in a straight line, if I had to correct the steering at all the car never came back to center on its own.......so when i corrected it continued in that direction.......so back and forth it went.......so I had to drive the car without the pleasure of riding in the car......LOL.....A couple of years ago I had it at a car show and was talking to a guy sitting next to me......he asked me how I liked the car and I told him about the steering issue......He told me the ball joints were bad....I figured he didn't know what he was talking about as everything was new and greased regularly.......So this spring I was looking for something to do and I ordered a set of Moog ball joints and took the front end apart and when I took the spindles off and tried to move the upper ball joints.....LOL....They were so galled I had to get a pipe on the uppers to move them........and the lowers had about a 1/16" of slop in them.......WOW!!!!........put the new Moog parts in and took it for a ride......LOL.......Drives like a regular car now.....How could I allow that to be a problem for years as I am smart.......LOL.....

[andrewb70]

Glad you got it sorted out!

Andrew

[clill]

What brand were the bad ball joints ?

[kwhizz]

Originally Posted by clill

What brand were the bad ball joints ?

They were the ball joints that were supplied with the Ridetech arms......

[syborg tt]

Thank you for sharing this as my buddy has been complaining about this on his car and yes they are RideTech arms.

Originally Posted by kwhizz

Update........This car stuff is hard....LOL..... So....After getting the car pretty much sorted out, I started driving it more and everything was back to normal.....except for one thing.......In driving the car on the Highway in a straight line, if I had to correct the steering at all the car never came back to center on its own.......so when i corrected it continued in that direction.......so back and forth it went.......so I had to drive the car without the pleasure of riding in the car......LOL.....A couple of years ago I had it at a car show and was talking to a guy sitting next to me......he asked me how I liked the car and I told him about the steering issue......He told me the ball joints were bad....I figured he didn't know what he was talking about as everything was new and greased regularly.......So this spring I was looking for something to do and I ordered a set of Moog ball joints and took the front end apart and when I took the spindles off and tried to move the upper ball joints.....LOL....They were so galled I had to get a pipe on the uppers to move them........and the lowers had about a 1/16" of slop in them.......WOW!!!!........put the new Moog parts in and took it for a ride......LOL.......Drives like a regular car now.....How could I allow that to be a problem for years as I am smart.......LOL.....

[kwhizz]

Thank you for sharing this as my buddy has been complaining about this on his car and yes they are RideTech arms.

That's the beauty of these car sites......Posting issues that we all experience and helping others out !!!!!.....

Ken