Ball Joints RESOLVED

[4uall]

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION Should the lower ball joints (once installed) have any sideways movement? My garage called and said that they cannot do the alignment due to the fact that it would appear that the ball joints are faulty

[RRoller123]

not sure what you mean by sideways movement?

[4uall]

That makes two of us JK The garage indicated there was some concern in the amount of play horizontally in the lower ball joints on both sides I have a solution in the works, as always I will keep you posted

[manoa matt]

Play between the ball joint housing and the control arm, or play between the ball joint stud and the ball joint housing? Either way, NO, its not good. Remove that shit and send it back before you get hurt or worse....

Fiat parts should only come from Italy, and Lada parts should stay in Russia.

[majicwrench]

Some suspension shops are really good at finding bad ball joints
Ball joints are designed to be loaded one way, and can seem to be "bad" if the are not loaded as the car would load them.
Keith

[focodave]

I agree with Manoa Matt.
As painful as this is going to sound -- you should start over with the right parts.
I got mine from IAP (upper and lower control arms).
They are made in Italy, for our cars, and they fit perfectly.
I paid $300 for the complete set and it was money well-spent.
I searched the forum before I ordered my control arms and I realized I had better get the Italian-made units.

[westy64]

That makes two of us JK The garage indicated there was some concern in the amount of play horizontally in the lower ball joints on both sides I have a solution in the works, as always I will keep you posted

Horizontal move ?
Isn't what they call a "Ladance" ?
Specific to Lada parts ?
Sorry about this, I could not resist.
Hope it is not that.