Mr Yardley maybe I am a goof but I cant find your email address to follow up your offer to get me the parts...give me a clue thanks Jack
Come on, it wasn't a personal attack towards you or your advice, just an opinion and a poor attempt at humor before I had my coffee. It's just that for most people paying $99.00 a piece for upper ball joints is out of the question. If you are patient and willing to hunt around, you can often do better. I deleted it.
I like the sound of $53 at Kanter a lot better..when I start adding shipping and tax..it gets to sting...but the big boy has to be on the road..be thankful you dont pay $11 a gallon of gas
Just a FYI. Be careful of those lessor expensive parts. Many are now made ib foreign lands that don't give 2 shits about quality or proper performance & longevity. Find out the brand & most importantly WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED!!!!! As an auto tech & shop owner you can't believe what sometimes comes in those "White" boxes. Just my dimes worth.
One thing I see some guys do with their cars is to rip apart the front end and just replace everything in sight with new. IMHO, if the original parts are still OK after so many years of service, it would make more sense to just leave them alone b/c they will likely continue to last. Modern day materials seem to be really crappy lately, particularly ones that are made of rubber or parts that require assembly at the manufacturer by workers who are hardly paid. You should only replace parts that really need replacing. Why take a chance on inferior quality replacement parts if you don't really need them? o No:
Kanter. Did any of you read the article on Kanter in Hemmings Classic Car a couple of months ago? Pretty interesting. They have warehouses filled with bins of parts they either had reproduced, or bought up years ago. If they only sell one or two of a particular part in a year, that is ok with them. Quite an operation.
