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> Raised spindles and wedge balljoints, Someone explain the difference in balljoints and struts
stugray
post Mar 11 2017, 12:55 PM
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I currently have my car lowered for racing.
Brant tells me that I will likely blow out a shock because I have almost zero travel left.

I also need to add another ~1 degree of camber for the Hoosiers.

So I want to buy the Elephant Racing offset (decambered) balljoints:
http://www.elephantracing.com/suspension/b...14balljoint.htm

They take the wedge bolt style of fastener.
My car is a 71 so I assume that I have early spindles.
One side of my car has the round bolt holding the balljoint in, the other side has the wedge bolt.
The PO must have replaced just one balljoint.

So if I want to install these balljoints on an early spindle, will that be a problem?

And if I want raised spindles, would I be better off buying a set of late spindles to raise?

I also learned that you can swap early versus late rotors, but you have to swap the calipers with them.
So I currently have late rotors and calipers on the early strut/spindles.

bdstone already gave me some advice but I figured I should some get some thoughts from others who have done this already.

And does anyone have a set of late lowered spindles for sale?
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post Mar 13 2017, 12:44 AM
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From your description, it would seem you have different struts (1 early, 1 late).
But the pictures both look like late (wedge pin) struts. I don't see the split to clamp the ball joint in either of your pictures.

If that is the case you need to pull out the "round bolt" and replace it with a wedge pin.

If you actually have matching struts, you can send them to Racer Chris and get the spindles raised. If you have a mismatch, get another late wedge pin style and then get the spindles raised.


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post Mar 13 2017, 07:30 AM
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QUOTE(jcd914 @ Mar 13 2017, 02:44 AM) *

From your description, it would seem you have different struts (1 early, 1 late).
But the pictures both look like late (wedge pin) struts. I don't see the split to clamp the ball joint in either of your pictures.

If that is the case you need to pull out the "round bolt" and replace it with a wedge pin.

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A wedge bolt strut needs a wedge bolt ball joint and wedge bolt to work correctly.
Mix and match will not work.
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