[Supras] Replacing lower ball joint

[cthommes at adelphia.net]

By the way, there should be 3 nuts that attach the ball joint to the lower control arm, no?

-Craig

---- Khalid Almufti <kalmufti at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Hi!
>      I am trying to replace the worn out lower ball joints in my 90 Turbo.  It was easy to remove the old ball joint and it was no problem to torque the two nuts that attach the ball joint to the lower control arm. But the nut with the cotter pin that connects the lower ball joint to the steering knuckle is not tightening.  The blot, which is protruding from the ball joint, is just spinning with the nut, so it is not being grabbed by the knuckle, thus it is not allowing me to tighten the nut (it's a 21mm nut I think).
>     So my question is, for those that have done this job before, what trick do you use so stop the bolt from spinning in the ball joint so you can tighten it down on the steering knuckle?  So far I came up with using fine sand paper to make the surface of the bolt more coarse so that it grabs on the groove in the steering knuckle, and helpfully that will do it, but please let me know if you know of a better way.
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> /Khalid, 90 T
> 
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