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Originally Posted by i-osprey
Has anybody ever found the ball joint for the upper control arm for sale separatel from the whole control arm?
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I've never seen it, but my indie climed he'd seen such things on some of the cars he'd worked on. I thought he was pulling my leg at the time, but maybe not?
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I just bought and replaced all the bushings on the upper control arm and in the process discovered the the ball joint is shot. (it moves freely in all directions, it even pulls away when it is jacked up leading me to wonder what exactly is holding it together)
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They are a metal cup with a plastic liner. The liner can disintegrate allowing vertical play in the joint, but the metal cup still be intact enough to keep it all together. You could probably get 1/4 inch movement based on what I've seen of the internal construction.
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I still have the annoying popping at every turn and bump in the road that I had hoped to fix with the bushing replacements. The uppermost bushings were completely disintegrated and I thought that this was the source of my problem. Apparently it was only part of the problem.
Any advice? I would rather not buy the whole arm assembly since I have already replaced the bushings.
Thanks for the help
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Sorry, no help for it.. the upper ball joint isn't replaceable alone, so you have to replace the whole upper arm.