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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 10:16 AM
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What brand of ball joints?

I'm about to do some front end work on my 85 trans am ! I was wondering does the brand make a different . My friend keeps telling me to get moog. Others say duralast and master pro chassis . What is yalls opinion??
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 10:44 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

just buy the Moog ball joints.
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 10:51 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

never had a problem with any of em.
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 10:55 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

I just put Moog ones on my car a couple weeks ago. I havent driven it yet but they seem like quality built parts
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 11:40 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

Moogs are beefier than most of the others. If you shop around you can usually find them for not much more than the white box stuff. $22 each at rock auto.
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 02:30 PM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

Yep get Moog if you go with the cheaper store brand parts a lot of times the cups that the ball part goes into will be made out of plastic. Second that on Rock Auto I've ordered a lot of parts from them and have nothing but good things to say about them. Sometimes you can find close outs on parts they get from parts stores going out of business ect and will get a really good deal on them to.
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 02:48 PM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

MOOG.
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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 07:02 PM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

thanks guys i just ordered moog ball joints from rock auto.the total came out to be $49.78.i spent less than duralast brand name.oreillys was smokin dope on there prices,they wanted 37$ each...
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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 05:19 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

I'm running Summit 1" extended ball joints, you need to source your own dust boots though.
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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 05:44 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

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I'm running Summit 1" extended ball joints, you need to source your own dust boots though.
i believe napa has those though
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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 09:11 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

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i believe napa has those though
I tried literally every dust boot from every ball joint that I could from every parts store in my area. I ended up ordering a pair of dust boots from Howe Racing. But if you know of some that will fit then I'm all ears.
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 04:16 PM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

+1 moog, careful putting on the dust caps, could rip em. Make sure they seat all the way round.
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Old Sep 18, 2012 | 11:51 AM
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Re: What brand of ball joints?

Also only a few pumps of grease is all you need. You'll split the dust boots if you fill em up.
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