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Doing ball joints on my 945 for the first time. Got the first one very nearly installed, everything torqued to spec, went to install cotter pin provided in kit, and discovered there is NO hole in the ball joint stud. The instructions do say to use a cotter pin. Looking around online, I see SOME ball joints use a locknut (this does have a deformed-thread locknut) and no cotter pin. The ones I took off the car use both a locknut AND a cotter pin, which seems sensible.
These are from Moog, item K9141. Anyone know if this is correct? It seems to lack the extra margin of safety that basic auto engineering requires.
John
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1989 245 236K / 1993 945 127K
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