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Well, it's clearly not a ball joint. A balljoint is a ball in a part-spherical socket. Ball joints permit rotation movement in more than one plane whilst preventing the two parts of the joint to move apart from each other. This thing is a tapered bearing. It allows rotational movement in 1 plane. The other planes are taken care of in the other joints in the suspension.

OP, have you have re-torqued it to make sure its not just loose?

The main bloke is going to have a look at it on Monday, he was not in when his bloke did the test ?

Well, it's clearly not a ball joint. A balljoint is a ball in a part-spherical socket. Ball joints permit rotation movement in more than one plane whilst preventing the two parts of the joint to move apart from each other. This thing is a tapered bearing. It allows rotational movement in 1 plane. The other planes are taken care of in the other joints in the suspension.

I wonder why a bloke that works on cars would not know this, he may not be the boss but are the Skyline GTRs so different if you have not worked on them before?

Spent a bit of time trying to get some info off the web yesterday, I must be asking the wrong questions ???????

just loose is pretty likely, it is one place you could pull the front suspension apart to remove and reinstall the engine (to clear the driveshaft)

Don't worry about what it is called, as long as they are talking about the right joint you are fine. If you pointed out to them that it only allows movement in 1 direction they would agree it can't be called a ball joint...

BTW these very rarely fail....they are hugely over engineered for their job.

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just loose is pretty likely, it is one place you could pull the front suspension apart to remove and reinstall the engine (to clear the driveshaft)

Don't worry about what it is called, as long as they are talking about the right joint you are fine. If you pointed out to them that it only allows movement in 1 direction they would agree it can't be called a ball joint...

BTW these very rarely fail....they are hugely over engineered for their job.

I am really starting to think they should have had the boss have a look, maybe it is not even this part that is give the play, be interesting to see what the Bossman has to say on Monday.

But if you do not have a name for the part , it is hard to order it. Kudos said it was , see below link

King Pin Bearing Kit (1 Side) - Nissan 300ZX Z32 & Skyline R32 GTR / GTS-4, R33 GTR / GTS-4 & R34 GTR

Seems like a reasonable description, I guess they are taking the responsibility that the part is correct.

If you want me to double check the part# send me your VIN# and I will check in FAST....I guess it will be the same Zeb posted above

Seems like a reasonable description, I guess they are taking the responsibility that the part is correct.

If you want me to double check the part# send me your VIN# and I will check in FAST....I guess it will be the same Zeb posted above

Sent PM :)

You were driving it with both bearings stuffed, what was the steering like ?

You'd be surprised. You can have most of the bushes and bearings in the front end off a Skyline pretty well f**ked and barely notice anything apart from a few clunks.

Probably why did not notice it, thought it might have something to do with the way my car can tramline pretty hard at times..

Put the RD08Rs on and it seems a little better, well I will wait for another drive before I get carried away, haha

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