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Ball Joint nut....

Postby Rblackadar » 14 Sep 2010 16:53

I replaced everything on the right front suspension and was wondering about the castle nut for the nall joint....There is no hole for the cotter pin on my Quinton Hazell ball joints... What's up with that?
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Postby Marsu » 14 Sep 2010 16:56

When I replaced mine (some years ago) they didn't have a hole either, but came with new nyloc nuts.
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Postby windy one » 14 Sep 2010 16:56

The ones I reciently bought were the same way. But came with a nylock-nut. Several hundred miles driven so far, still good [:D]

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Postby Ianftr8 » 14 Sep 2010 16:57

Just had to replace one of mine, it would seem that the modern stuff replaces the castle nut and split pin with a nyloc nut.

Must be cheaper!

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Postby Bobbieslandy » 14 Sep 2010 17:44

yup, nyloc nut here too.

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Postby john 215 » 14 Sep 2010 17:48

Hi,

As long as the thread is the same, how about torque the nut up and drill the ball jiont so keeping an original look, if thats what you are after. The majority of modern cars use nylocs and they work ok, a little to well at times when the taper breaks as you are undoing the nut so the whole bl88dy pin spins [:(!]

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Postby prlee » 14 Sep 2010 18:20

Confused, my Spitfires which predate the TR7 I currently have always had nylocs. My late model TR7 suprised me because it had a castle nut.

So the newer car is an older design than the 1967 Spit I had????

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Postby DNK » 14 Sep 2010 20:39

Pete- You owned the Spitty since new?

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Postby Rblackadar » 17 Sep 2010 11:52

OK I may go with nylocs...how do I find Grade 8.8 nylocs? usually they don't have any marking system on them, and I don't want to use generic ones to find they are strong enough.
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Postby DNK » 17 Sep 2010 15:43

RB, do you have a fastener tore near you. Around here we have Tacoma Screw and Fastenal to name just a couple. What I would use instead of a nylock is a metal lock.

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