Darren C wrote:Because we got these made so fast, he was out of stock of the circlips, he said he'd get them in on Monday for us, we can then have them supplied with the joint. You could obviously re-use your old one (if you dont damage it getting it off). But much nicer to use a new shiny one that could come with the joint.
As I've got a drawer full of useless joint's I had plenty of new circlips so fitted one of those today. The joint comes with nylocks, you can request a hole for a split pin, but you'd need to re-use your old nut. We can get these new, but they are blooming expensive for just one nut as again these need to be made to order. To be fair the nylock would be fine. It's just OCD geeks like me that want the "original" look with the split pin.
Hey guys, cool to see a new and hopefully perfect replacement
The only thing I am afraid of is the nyloc nut.
You guys remember that recall where they changed to the castellated nuts ?
I added a picture I found years ago.
I had a nyloc nut that failed on my car. I would never ever want to experience this again. So please pelase
try to get those nuts and replace those nyloc nuts.
Added some pics, too. This happened in 2003, it was a Volkswagen part.
The nut got loose and then the cone got loose, too. Then one day it broke off in a curve, I wasn't going fast
though - what luck ! a few minutes before I was on the Autobahn...
After this I replaced the balljoints with the new Houston ones. 1500km later it was hard to keep the car going
straight on roads where you couldn't even see the tracks from the trucks. I lifted up the car and saw the excessive
play in those "new" ball joints. Houston didn't react on my emails...but 6 years later it was official