a very rough Audi weekend

[james accordino]

I'm sorry.  I thought this was similar to my 89 200q.
It appears your ball joint was nutted at the  bottom
of the control arm?  I'm surprised that's not a castle
nut with a cotter pin.

Jim Accordino

--- cobram at juno.com wrote:
> The slide bolt alone is not enough once the ball
> joint has even
> marginally chewed the inner sleeve,
>
> I think this problem was noticed by someone at Audi,
> if you look at the
> new cars, they have a bolt going through the Top of
> the ball joint to
> hold it in place and keep it from popping out.
>
> > >  I check them and
> > > rotate 180* or to a nice clean spot.
>
> Useless once the sleeve has worn.
>
> > >  Also I use
> > > Loctite blue on my taper/press fits.  Ball joint
> and
> > > tie-rod ends.
>
> BTDT-locktite acted as a lubricant ?!? and the ball
> joint was popping
> less than a day later, with new hardware, control
> arm and shaving down of
> sleeve slit (to tighten it up.)
>
> >
> > I went one step further and used a nylock style
> lock nut.  They seem
> > to work very well.
>
> The "oval" peened locknuts are what the dealer
> supplies.
>
>
> In an emergency, with a piece of pipe a jack and an
> assistant you can pop
> the balljoint back in, well covered in 2 stage
> epoxy, tie it down with a
> web of mechanics wire, and Carefully ferry the car
> for many miles,  if
> you really had to.  After which you upgrade to AAA
> gold and never have to
> worry about McGuyvering the thing. BTDT
>
> FWIW- Chris Semple at Force Five sold me the
> complete strut assembly
> (plug and play except for the bearing), once
> installed it's all tight
> again and that's one less thing to worry about.
>
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
>
>
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