[urq] Ball Joints revisited

[Jim Haseltine]

If the front anti-roll bar has drop links then you should need the later 
joints - if it clamps to the wishbones with big 'G' shaped clips then you 
should need the earlier joints.

Early joints have holes in the joint tongue and slots in the wishbone, later 
joints have slots in the tongue and holes in the wishbone.

Neither type of joint are unobatainable - it's just that Audi don't list the 
early ones any more. According to the dealers you are supposed to fit a 
complete set of later style joints, wishbones and anti-roll bar at a cost of 
an arm, a leg and both testicles.

Regards,

Jim Haseltine

----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:12 AM
Subject: [urq] Ball Joints revisited


>        Since they have been reported as virtually unobtainable I set out 
> to
> see if I could locate some new ball joints for my 83 UrQ VIN 
> WAUDC085DA900214.
> If I read the 'ETKA' on this french site,
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nathalie.recordon/Mainmenu.html
> correctly it appears that up to VIN 85-C-902 000 the left and right joints
> are:
> 847 407 365C and 857 407 366C respectively,
> and from 85-D-900 001 to 85-K-020 000 they are:
> 857 407 365E and 857 407 366E
>
>
>       As my car is an early 83, actually on the road in mid 82, it would
> appear that it still uses the 'later' ball joints yet has both the 'old 
> style'
> front anti roll bar connections and a rear anti-roll bar. Is it just the 
> really
> early 82 models that use the unobtainable ball joints,  mine has the 
> 'later'
> joints but still retains the 'old' roll bar arrangements, and 84+s used 
> the
> same ball joints but changed the front anti-roll bar connections and 
> dropped the
> rear anti-roll bar completely when the sub-frame was changed to the 4000Q
> type?
>       Martin Dapot
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