I replaced the upper ball joints on a 66 Newport a few years ago. I was working at a factory in St. Louis which had pretty good machine shop facilities and a bunch of engineers who were into older cars. Not one of them knew about the screw in ball joints of the Chryslers. They were all amazed when I clamped the A arm into one of their vices and un-screwed the old ball joint and then installed the new one!
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From: aeyn
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: Upper A Arm
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:05:13 -0800 (PST)
You would think that if a front end shop KNEW WHAT THEY WERE
DOING, they should know that THIS and OTHER years of Chryslers
had THREADED ball joints and required a special socket to remove
and install.
Æyn & Patrick
1975 LeBaron
1993 Sedan
--- smoorehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Call Howe (209) 892-3464 and don't bother trying to fix it its
> done. the damage that could be done to your car by trying to
> fix and reuse this part isent worth it. did someone try to
> press the ball joint out? I ask because a friend of mine had
> his ruined that way by a front-end shop
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jenifer Ogle
> Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 22:28
> Subject: IML: Upper A Arm
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > > Hi, I'm looking for a passenger side
> upper A Arm for my 1962 > Imperial as the
> threads for the balljoint are damaged. Does >
> anyone have one? I believe '57-'65 would be
> interchangeable?
> If > not does anyone have any suggestions for repairing the
> threads?
> > > Thanks
> >
>
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