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Post by yorke58 » Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:48 pm

Hi!

I've made the mistake of removing the rear upper arm ball joints and lost the photo showing the orientation of the joints. The joints only allow up and down and no side to side movement.
I've added a picture to see if the position I think is correct. Any help or just to tell me I'm right would be great.




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Post by Scott560 » Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:00 pm

I'm not sure i understand the question? Pictured is the left hand side upper arm - the single ball joint points down when installed to the meet the rear knuckle assembly. Here it is picture upside down (eg, from underneath its normal installed location)

The 2 linkage parts should stick upwards into the rear wing area into square holes. I don't believe they are handed, eg they can go back on either way. In the picture, they are 90degrees out of position, there will be no place in the inner wing for it to slot into - they should stick up into the rear of the car boot space.

picture from lings if that's any help:

https://www.lingshondaparts.com/partsca ... f/B__2900/
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Post by yorke58 » Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:12 pm

I've taken the ball joints out of both arms. But the ball joints original don't spin all the way round. So if i fitted them wrong it could damage the ball joint I've added a picture to show you



The ball joint position is the same on either side of the car

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Post by Scott560 » Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:27 pm

Are there any marks on the other side of the arm / balljoint ? it might be caked up on the original arms, but the replacements online show an orientation mark:

https://www.suspension.com/prodimages/b ... arge-4.jpg

and slightly visible here:

https://www.suspension.com/prodimages/m ... arge-1.jpg

I can't imagine your far off with your estimate though. not sure if the original arms have a marking on them or not (I didn't see them when I did my suspension but they would have been caked in road crust :lol: )
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Post by yorke58 » Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:16 pm

I've just got the wire brush out on my nicely painted arms and look at look what I found.



These must be what your talking about Scott560

Well happy now. cheers mate I can get these back on tomorrow await for my anti roll bar links to come and that's that job down! :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Post by Scott560 » Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:55 pm

looks like it! Be sure to give it a bit of paint too :D
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Post by vanzep » Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:21 pm

Good old Honda Engineering - a mark to line it up 8) :thumbup:
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Post by yorke58 » Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:02 pm

O yeah! I've missed it when cleaning the rust off and covered it in paint! Easily missed! If fitted like a normal ball joint it could cause a issue or 2!
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Post by Scott560 » Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:09 am

happy to help - didn't know they were there on the prelude, but saw them when researching tools to press out/in ball joints on the civic EP i sorted out for my mate.

PS, the ebay tools for pressing in and out balljoints are massively oversized - built for yank tanks no doubt, was quite a jigsaw puzzle to press in the civic joints with the big ebay kit, could have done with some smaller inserts.
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