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Title: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: Matt Tobias on October 06, 2014, 22:59:05 pm Hey guys finally getting back to work on my 67 and I recently picked up some dropped spindles. I want to put adjusters in the beam as well to fine tune ride height. If I end up lowering the car a bit more than the spindles provide, will stock style ball joints be okay?
TIA, Matt Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: Mike Maize on October 07, 2014, 02:48:59 am Yes they will.
Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: Matt Tobias on October 07, 2014, 03:29:27 am Thank you Mike!
Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: hotrodsurplus on October 22, 2014, 13:13:56 pm a bit off topic but when you build your beam make sure to install the adjusters to both lower the car and raise it so you can lift the nose to stock height for towing, etc. Most adjusters (at least the Sway-a-Way type) offer enough range to get the car quite low even if installed to lift it a little bit.
Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: Lids on October 23, 2014, 10:49:38 am But don't do what i did, I put both adjusters with a deliberate slight rotation. This meant that when fully wound down the nose touched the ground! I could not get a jack under the front of the car. It looked cool, but was so impractical. Swapped the beam for a stock one and now only run dropped spindles.
Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: kev d on October 23, 2014, 22:22:15 pm I did that too ::)
Off with it again & repeat the cut, weld refit... Was low though! Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: 56BLITZ on October 25, 2014, 22:16:22 pm . . . make sure to install the adjusters to both lower the car and raise it so you can lift the nose to stock height . . . Hey Chris, does this also apply when using stock spindles? Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: Rick Meredith on October 26, 2014, 00:51:12 am I'm thinking that you wouldn't want to raise the car much above stock.
Title: Re: Best ball joints to use with lowered spindles Post by: Matt Tobias on October 26, 2014, 20:59:15 pm all good info, thanks guys!!!
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