Upper BJ tightness ('moog)

1969383S said

While I mostly disagree with this reply! It certainly helps to spot weld in 1 place!

I was able to achieve very good torque on used arms sourced here on this site.

My originals had been tacked in one spot! and the force required to remove them was ludicrous! Only then did I notice the tack weld!

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Back in the 70's and 80's when I worked in the front end shop I had changes 100's of ball joints, we had a short 1" impact wrench that would fit in the fender well and we would not have to cut the weld first, it just ripped a small piece out of the control arm lip for the ball joint, that is when you knew it was welded.

We would just put a new joint back in and reweld it, never had a problem.