Oversized lower ball joints

[craigg1]

Had some work done on my front end today, 67 C10, but front suspension swapped with a 72. Anyway, all went fine until installing the lower ball joint on drivers side. The ball joint would not seat right and was told the Lower control arm needed replaced.
I have read where some people say to tack weld the LCA. Others have mentioned using an oversized ball joint. Has anyone used an oversized ball joint....and if so did that fix your problem? Thanks.

[68 P.O.S.]

Well, first off, what's the problem you're experiencing that made you have work done?

[HO455]

The Moog problem solver ball joint is oversized. Commonly available.

Tack welding the joint was very common back when vehicles with similar control arms were everywhere. Nowadays many shops won't replace the ball joint without replacing the complete control arm (or they don't know how to).

It's possible your control arm was damaged in the past and that's why the ball joint won't seat right. My GTO had one like that once. Being poor at the time a BFH and a hot blue wrench solved that problem.

Our stamped steel control arms aren't exactly a precision machined part. Your only real concern would be if the steel would develop a crack over time if you had to really do a lot of massaging to get it back in shape.

[Rust_never_sleeps]

https://emfballjoints.com/pages/over...ar-ball-joints

[Rust_never_sleeps]

When I did the brake conversion, there was a piece of the Brother's video where they warned about wallowing out the hole by not driving the bj in straight or you'd need a new control arm. Obviously there are other options.

[craigg1]

I ended up getting a new lower control arm. Oversized ball joint didn't work.