Never liked them either, I had a pair, offered them up, then thought better of it. I don't post on EB, but I note there are some posters decrying upside down ball joints which they claim are not designed to be fitted this way. They are now the ones (Trikky) talking from their uneducated arseholes. Upside down ball joints are DESIGNED to be fitted like this and common on some makes of cars from new. Forums eh? Always best to do your engineering research somewhere else I think. My guess from the state of the broken bolts is that they were either loose or over-tightened. This is why torque settings are given in your manual, not just for fun. With a long bar I could shear those bolts from new if I tried hard enough. That's what I would say have happened, after reading it just collapsed on his drive. A good time to repeat my mantra - lowering a vehicle is not a bolt on fashion accessory however the purveyors of the bits like to advertise them.
I've never seen the point of them... I think they are for people who are afraid of undoing the torsion bars and rotating the splines
Exactly this, a point I've made myself in the past. Plus you're a nit if you're doing this without taking advantage of the perfect opportunity to replace the donuts at which point all you have to do is put the springplates on a different spline.
From my understanding and that is little one bolt sheering wouldn't have made the wheel drop at least 3 would of had to have snapped to do this?
Those bolts have to be done up to 80/90ft/lbs... so there is something going on if one has bust You're right... either 3 or all 4 bolts must've broken
So where is the comment coming from it's designed to fit 4 not 2 bolts as the hub still is bolting on to 4??
Over-tightened, or stuggled to get them out which was perhaps when they were weakened, then re-used them. Tut-tut. I've sheared caliper bolts with 18" bar try to get them out.
I only see 2 in the second picture? Pretty sure the TH ones I had and didn't fit only used 4 bolts and they don't provide new bolts with them.
I've stripped the thread on the long ones before... They get rust in the thread, and it just chews them up
stock torsion setting and 2 inch drop.....why fit anything else if you want to gain an actual benefit from lowering, rather than aesthetics?
