[urq] another clunk....

[Michael Hopton]

Also watch for 4000/80 quattro front ball joints used as
front ur-q ball joints (they are about quarter of the price). 
The ur-q ball joint is bigger - it won't matter if the nut and 
bolt are in the groove or not, BTST.

cheers, Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Payne [mailto:quattro at isham-research.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:10 PM
To: urq at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [urq] another clunk....


> And even better yet..... A-Arm failure at 40mph....
> Destroyed Fender, A-Arm, Ball Joint, Inner CV joint sheered in half
> longitudinally!, Fender and Tie-Rod Destroyed.
> Survived: Tranny, Drive Shaft, Outer CV Joint, Me.
> Any faster or having been in a turn instead of straight travel on an
> uncrowded road, the results could have been worse. Have you ever seen
> this happen? Granted, older car...

Your ControlArm.jpg ?

NO!

I've never seen anything like that at all, not even grovelling under accident-damaged wrecks.
That's a complete snap just inboard of the camber adjustment.

The only thing I've ever seen in that area of a car was a mismatch between the "stock"
wishbone (aka A-arm) and the tongue on the ball joint carrier - but I would have thought that
a unique-to-urq problem. It's in the service microfiche - some "A-arms" were thinner than
others and there was a corresponding ball joint with a thinner tongue - if you put such a ball
joint into a standard A-arm you might get what you have.  But - as above - I would have
thought it ur-quattro only.

BTW - it's not on ETKA - only the service fiche.  "Gleitender Einsatz", it says.

Spectacular.

--
  Phil Payne
  http://www.isham-research.com
  +44 7785 302 803

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