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Maxi Ball Joint Thread
Ian Pearson - 15/12/04 at 02:45 PM

Tried doing a search with no luck. Anyone have any idea what thread the maxi ball joint is?

Regards, Ian.


Kelvin - 15/12/04 at 03:51 PM

Hi Ian,

Are you after a couple of nuts for Maxi balljoints.

I may have a coupl eif you are.

let me know,

Kelvin


britishtrident - 15/12/04 at 07:00 PM

UNF -- don't know the dia but it suspect 1/2" or 9/16"


Stu16v - 15/12/04 at 09:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
UNF -- don't know the dia but it suspect 1/2" or 9/16"


May of been originally, but the 'Maxi' balljoints on my car are definately metric (12mm) nuts...


NS Dev - 15/12/04 at 10:12 PM

Mine too


Steve Hnz - 16/12/04 at 02:53 AM

It may depend on who makes the ball joint, I found this with Escort TREs, the originals were 10mm fine but replacement ones were 10mm coarse, so depending on the manufacturer they may well be different. If you need to know what yours are, invest in a set of thread pitch gauges, they're not expensive, you can get them to do both metric & imperial & they`re hugely useful, save a lot of stuffing around & guesswork. Cheers, Steve.

[Edited on 16/12/04 by Steve Hnz]


Rorty - 16/12/04 at 05:56 AM

Quinton Hazell Maxi BJs are 1/2 x 20 UNF Class 2A.
I suspect many imported pattern BJs will be metric.


Stu16v - 16/12/04 at 06:01 PM

New nuts are nearly always supplied with balljoints though, or have you mispalced them?


Ian Pearson - 17/12/04 at 07:41 AM

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New nuts are nearly always supplied with balljoints though, or have you mispalced them?



Lost the little buggers in the organised chaos of my garage. Kelvin has very kindly sent me two nylocs.