was out riding today and the some how,for some stange reason,god only knows my nut came flying off my ball joint.as luck would have it it happened just before i was going to climb this long hill. the question is has anyone ever tried to retheard the ball joint or am i just wasting my time?

 

Did the nut strip off the threads? Rethreading doesn't sound like a safe idea, just get a new a-arm and don't take any chances.

 

depending on how chewed up it all got, u may be able to salvidge it if ur pritty good at it. i dont see why it wouldnt work. But if it just ripped out like that, it sounds alittle beyond repair and might just be better to replace if u got the $$$....would u have to replace the whole A-arm or could u just buy a new nut/bolt. what did u hit to cause all that anyways?!?!

 

you can replace just the ball joint. It would probably cost about 25 to 30 dolars for the part, and they are easy to replace.

 

i would defonatly just replace the ball joint then

 

You can't replace the ball joints on 1989 and newer warriors because the ball joint is a welded part of the a-arm. If the threads are damaged you can take a risk and try to repair it, but you could get hurt badly if it failed. The safer bet would to buy a used a-arm off ebay. Another possibility: you could also sell the remaining 3 that are good , and get a set of ASR a-arms on ebay for $350. The cost of a new arm from yamaha is insane, $100 for an upper, $200 for a lower.

 

well the nut seems to have been held on by maybe the last 2 or 3 theards and the cotter pin..[which break really easy i see]the nut will start but will not tighten up it just comes back off.i don't really have the money to buy a new one because they are high and you do have to replace the a-arm which i think is a bone head idea from yamaha [not sure what they were thinking] i'm going to try and retap the nut and the stud and see what happens.if i can get it to tighten up i think it will be ok.i hope

 

i didn't hit anything it was just something that got over looked and almost cost me big time.lol...everybody might want to go check there own just to be safe.just think god my buddy had a big utilty to how me back to the truck..almost 2 and a half miles.things always seem to break when your far from home...but it could have been worse

 

I've had problems with stuff breaking 5 miles away from the truck... this happened

Towing it back wasn't an option, that sucked BAD

 

lol...what a bummer it looks so sad in that pic