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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 10:24 AM |
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Balljoint Bonanza.
This was how my trop home from Run to the sun Goldie went.
Thanks To all Who helped me out. Cheers
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68AutoBug
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 11:24 AM |
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YIKES
don't You check Your ball joints??
usually get loose long before they collapse
lucky no damage done to anything...
Lee
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 12:02 PM |
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Yah check them every so often. But no wear. The bottom 1 sheared off and then the top popped out. All ok not really any damage to the car. Cant say
the same about the road.
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 12:37 PM |
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That is scary!
Does your car have the full bump stop?
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telf
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 01:14 PM |
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no i chopped them off.
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 01:39 PM |
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Lucky you wernt going any faster!
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 01:58 PM |
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I was just exiting a double round about and think that the turn made it happen. Don't think it would have happened on the straight, but May be wrong.
New ball joints arrive tomorrow so back on the road by wed night. Its a daily driver so it does get hammered abit.
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 02:11 PM |
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This is how it looked 20 mins before.
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 02:20 PM |
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Holy shit! you didn't have aftermarket ball joints did you?
Or perhaps rust pitting to the ball joint pins?
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| posted on November 28th, 2011 at 02:29 PM |
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No they were German. Haven't had a real good look yet.
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| posted on November 29th, 2011 at 07:58 AM |
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Without the bump stop there is nothing to stop the ball joint going to an angle it was not designed to. I'd say If you have a look at the ball joint
you will see where it had reached its limit of travel and the inner ball part had been hitting on the outer. I've seen that in type1's as well.
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| posted on November 29th, 2011 at 08:05 AM |
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What height or settings are you running?looking at lowering my fastie?
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| posted on November 29th, 2011 at 08:31 AM |
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Its 3 outer splines at the front and 2 outer at the back.
Its been that low for about 3 years with no problems. so ill just make sure i replace them abit more often. But hopefully in the not to distant future
it'll have a type 1 narrowed beam.
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| posted on November 29th, 2011 at 07:48 PM |
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All sorted tonight so back on the road. Now to terrorise some speed humps.
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| posted on December 1st, 2011 at 06:44 AM |
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Sweet good to hear your back on the road. Did you lower the car yourself?
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| posted on December 1st, 2011 at 04:58 PM |
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Yah me and my mate did it about 4 years ago. The type 3 is the easiest to lower out of the VW family.
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