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Ok......I read it in the forums and didn't take heed and now I'm paying for it. I purchased an Ebay front end kit that included ball joints, tie rod ends for a great price. After 5000 miles and 30 days my new lower ball joint on the drivers side fell apart on me yesterday. Thank God I was barely moving and just pulling out from a driveway 3 miles from home. Within an hour the go-cart was back home and up on jack stands. Upon further inspection I found the ball joint had little to no grease applied. The bottom half of the ball joint looked as if it had been ground away at high temp. Not a pretty sight. Total damage is a lower front ball joint, a front drivers side axle(inner CV pulled apart) and some fender crunch. I was very lucky. When I get a chance I'll post some pics. Guess what I'm doing this 4th of July weekend? Replacing Ebay junk ball joints with known quality ones.....maybe MOOG? I knew things had gone too smoothly with the swap!!
Shit hopefully my ebay ones hold up. I put mine in this past spring.
thanks for the heads up!
eBay Motors: Ball Joint Control Arm Tie Rod FULL KIT CIVIC 92-95 (item 330246946126 end time Jul-01-08 04:20:50 PDT)
Thats the exact kit I bought from that seller. Look familiar to you?
good to see you got it fixed! Hopefully I don't suffer the same fate. My kit came packaged very professionally and had plastic covers on all the threads and what not, so it seemed legit when it showed up in the box.
bfraley - Thanks for all the info about this swap. I got a 98 dx coupe with 97 USDM LS. (almost complete with help from you). I have a couple of questions for you.
1. Your throttle cable bracket says P6T - What car is that from? My teg bracket says P75 and my D16Y7 bracket is nothing like the one pictured..
2. Did a muffler shop complete your exhaust? My swap is missing the b-pipe, so I need to get a header and my DX exhaust ends at the firewall. I was told the header will bolt up to the DX exhaust w/o a cat. If I add a cat I have to modify the civic exhaust to make room for the cat. What did you do?.
3. Is the LS and SI front trans bracket the same? Which one did you buy? I know the the transmissions are different. Y80/S80 vs. S4C.
Your ball joint fiasco sucks. I bet you were pissed.
Edit: I forgot to ask... I'll also be using a JDM motor, and was informed that the JDM ecu has a speed governer. So top speed is 190km/hr (118mph). Seeing as this is my daily driver, I highly doubt I'll ever see that kind of speed. But then again, I do hope to hit the drags as I obviously don't street race. I know I could switch to a USDM ecu, but is it worth it?