<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Since I've already got the parts in, I'll have to learn the hard way. Hopefully I'll have better success. I'll be out at the track on May 6 so will get to push it hard then. If they fail, then I'll know to get the OEM replacements!<DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>Frank</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>PS, sun was out, above freezing and so I got insurance back for the day and drove it out to the shop for an alignment. It was nice to have it out on the road again.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:20 AM, John A. Heer wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">For better or worse, I feel like I am the expert in ball joints (watch</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the snide remarks, you buffoons). I went through at least 3 sets of</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">ball joints in about a year at one stretch and replaced them several</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">other times, too. As a result, I was finally persuaded that installing</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">aftermarket ball joints into the stock control arms is a large waste</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">of time and money. The sockets get too loose (not Henri de</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Toulouse-Lautrec) to handle any type of stress on the ball joints. If</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">you do any kind of performance driving (i.e. autocross, track, etc.),</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">then the new ball joints will go bad very quickly.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The Moog ball joints are great parts, but with the loose socket in the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">LCA, they cannot withstand the forces. It's much better in the long</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">run to just get new stock control arms with the stock ball joints</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">already installed. They last a long time and are more than adequate.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>