Greasable upper ball joints?

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Treys92

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Hey guys, quick question. I just had new upper control arms put on both sides of my car. Instead of using stock replacements, they put in greasable ones. Is there any problems associated with this? I thought we weren't supposed to use greasable ones on the SC.

Could someone please clarify? :confused:

thanks.

-Trey
 
I used some on a 96 cougar I rebuilt the front end of. The only drawback to them is you have to remember to grease them, and dont over grease them either. :)
 
every 30...300..or 3000 is fine you can't lube too often...yes you can use the ball joints with a grease lube fitting...If you over lube them just be carefull not to get any of the overfill on your brakes...clean it well around the joint before you replace the tire
 
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Sounds good. Thanks for all the quick replies, I appreciate it. I'll be sure to keep them greased and hopefully i won't be replacing them in another year :rolleyes: .

-Trey
 
Moog on mine. Love em. Shoot a bit when it looks like they ain't all puffy any more.

Looking at the Motorsports ones for another. i'm guessing that Moog probably makes these too. Since the non-greasables were TRW (the same as OEM I took off).
 
Allen-

Thanks for the tip. I should be seeing those ball joints plenty, as often as i've been cleaning my new 18 x 9 Bullets. :D Hopefully I'll have some pics up soon. Thanks again.

-Trey
 
Common failures on the upper control arm joints are no the joints themselves, but the grease boots split. So fewer grease-ups would be better. However, some replacement arms now come with like clear rethane boots versus the stock rubber ones.
 
Jim-

Thanks for the clarification. What I recall being told is that the boot tears and allow debris and water to get into the actual joint and eventually cause failure. I beleive my new ones have a urethane boot, they are blue and don't look like regular rubber to me. Hopefully it will last longer than the 14 months of the last one :mad: .

-Trey
 
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