80q front ball joint issue

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Stacy,
According to the family album, that is the correct number for  your car.  
Does the old one or the new one have a part number on  it?  You say this is the 
right one, have you compared the left ones  yet?
 
Maybe the ball joint that way on you car is the wrong one and was a  
replacement a while back?  Maybe chinese junk?  Mayve PO replaced it  wrong previously?
 
One way to tell is pull one from earlier 89/90Q in maybe at a pick and pull  
and compare it.
 
Or get hold of 336F balljoint, which is from earlier model and compare it  to 
what you have on the car?
 
Doesn't seem like this is much help.
 
Greg
 
In a message dated 12/11/04 3:41:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
samsims at ulmail.net writes:

I have a  '91 80q (cast control arms) and am replacing both front ball 
joints.  My  issue is with the replacement right ball (893 407 366E) joint, it does 
not  have the same dimensions as the old one, the ball of the joint is located 
 ~3/8" further foward than the original in relation to the mounting holes.  
Also, the rod that goes into the strut is short by ~1/4".  This all says  wrong 
part to me.  The supplier says its the correct one.  Its also  the same unit 
thepartsbin.com shows in their pic.  The mounting holes  work, and the rod dia 
is the same.  Anyone run into this before?   Whats going one here!?

Thanks
Stacy