Help!!! 67 Dart Upper Balljoint crooked

did it reach the required torque?

If so leave it its not the end of the world you still have the same amount of thread in the arm as you would have had with it straight. at least its in tight.
the arms had a starting thread, that was all. the thread in the arm is cut by the installation of a Joint.

1) its unlikley to have messed up the threads on the balljoint, on OEM ones there are hardly any threads anyway its like somone half did the job. no depth or peak.

2) it will have splayed out the hole in the arm slightly meaning if you do put it in straight next time you probably won't achive the torque setting before it just goes round and round and round and you will then need to buy a new upper arm.

its a balljoint who cares if the case is a little wonky. there is enough movement in the ball to cover suspension travel and-some. So this will make no difference. it will still do its job and if its in tight it won't come out unless you hit a lower control arm bending 6 inch deep pot hole and basically break everything

oooo the centre of the balljoint is no longer bang in the centre of where it should be!!!!! doesn't matter, you cater for that with you cam bolts during alignment its the position of the stub axle that matters.

basically if you take that out huge chance it goes back in, in exactly the same position again no matter how hard you try Or the arm is rendered junk.

having the correct balljoint socket allows you to torque it correctly it does little to assist in getting them in straight

you can start them in a vice: put joint in vice tap arm down to thread wind arm around joint to start the thread
then fit to car and wind the joint in properly 10% chance of a slight wonkyness even with this kinda care... unless you do 10 of these a day its not a nice job and its prone to the odd fffkup


Dave