Beware of cheap imported ball joints

[Cooper Restorations]

Well,
We just verified what problems some other people have had and posted about earlier. In putting a pair of drop spindles on a 67 C10 last weekend, we decided we should replace the ball joints while we were at it. Hearing others issues with parts store ball joints not fitting their spindles we did some checking. All the parts stores in Marion that we checked... none of their standard ball joints would fit properly. When installed, the hole was too far off for the castle nut to do its job. They didn't even fit our original spindles right. After questioning the guy behind the counter at Autozone, he said he could get Moog joints from their commercial line of parts. He got them in within a couple days... and they fit perfect. Of course they were a little more expensive, but they worked. So keep that in mind when you are buying replacements for yours.