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[Dr s]

Fitted new ball joints, built up dry and it appears they will need about 2mm of spacers. This seems an awful lot? They are genuine items from mini-spares being built onto new uprights also from minispares. I've not lapped them I'm yet but surely I'll not use that much material up?

Any thoughts?

[Gremlin]

Lap them in and see what happens, it will close up a bit and you might find you have to use a fair amount of shims, thats what their there for

[MrElliott]

i found i had to use more shims than were given in the pack so i had to order more to complete!

[sonikk4]

i found i had to use more shims than were given in the pack so i had to order more to complete!

 

Yes the same here.

[Fast Ivan]

you got the lock tabs fitted?

[Dr s]

Lock tabs fitted, I'll lap in tommorow and see if it makes up much difference.

Haven't done any for a long time and didn't remember having to have this many shims fitted

[lewBlew]

Apparently new ones, especially non-genuine, need a lot of shims. Mine did.

[Fossy313]

at the end of the day shims are there to be fitted, just make sure all tabs etc are fitted and they are lapped...cant do much more than that!

[Zara]

yup same here with mine when I had new, shimmed to buggery.