Thread: ball joints

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Thanks for the responses. I plan to buy a 1-59/64" ball joint socket and hope that it will work to remove the joints. I won't be surprised if Oze didn't apply anti-seize to the threads, so they may be stuck. They're supposed to be torqued to 100 ft/lbs.

My concern about the A-arm angles comes from reading literature on the Heidts website. As far as I can tell, my suspension is built to function like the Heidt's Super Ride II. If you go to the link below and read page 74, it mentions that they want both the upper and lower A-arms to be parallel at ride height. Mine certainly aren't, but a longer stud on the upper ball joint could correct that.

http://www.heidts.com/HEIDTS%20V27%2...ed%2012-15.pdf

I'm also dealing with Ride Tech, who made the control arms for Oze. The rod ends on one of the arms are not square to the pivot tube that it bolts to. I also found that the steel sleeves in the flanged rubber bushings look like they were shortened with a hack saw. The bushings need to have a 1.125 OD, with a .625 ID on the steel sleeve and a 1.5 inch sleeve length. Energy Suspensions doesn't offer these dimensions in their list of universal bushings, but there is one that could be cut down from a 1.75 inch length to 1.5 inch.