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Ball Joints, Where to buy High Quality?

RRDon

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I want to replace the upper and lower ball joints on my 68 Road Runner. The problem is I don't want to buy poorly made chinese made crap to put on my car. Does anyone know if there are some US companies or Japanese or German that make this stuff? Unfortunately Moog now makes most of their stuff in china. Thanks, RRDon
 
I think McQuay-Norris still makes them. I'm pretty sure they were factory pieces on classic Mopars.
 
I've used Proforged on my last 2 cars and been very happy with the quality. Used to be able to buy them from Rock Auto, but I've heard that is not so anymore. Might have to try Summit, Amazon, or the like.
 
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hunt2elk said:
I've used Proforged on my last 2 cars and been very happy with the quality. Used to be able to by them from Rock Auto, but I've heard that is not so anymore. Might have to try Summit, Amazon, or the like.
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Ya, i used to buy from Rock Auto, but not listed anymore, so i too, will now have to move over with Summit.
 
Been using Moog with no issues, Chinese or not...also Napa chassis parts been good too
 
How can you tell if the MooG parts are U.S. made? I purchased a whole front-end
kit around ten years ago and don't want to put junk in! Thanks.
 
The only way I was able to tell was the box they came in or occasionally the part itself would be stamped "USA."

I think I have 3 USA Moog tie rod ends and 1 Chinese one when I changed them years ago. The Chinese one is smaller than the others and has the part number laser etched into the part itself. Old stuff used to have a graphite/lead/light oil coating while the newer stuff seems to have a light coat of semi-gloss black paint. It also came with a smaller metric zerk (7mm socket to install) and broke off on the first thread. Was lucky enough to get the cheesy broken thread out with a small flathead screwdriver and replaced with an American 5/16" zerk. -That summed up my first impressions right there.

I believe ProForged components are made in Taiwan, but are supposed to be decent quality (haven't personally used them).
 
Yeah I don't blame you. The chinese stuff sometimes looks ok but more often than not it's not built using the same quality materials and workmanship. Apparently their engineering and manufacturing standards are fall far short of ours. That is if they even have any standards at all.
 
Taiwan stuff is usually better than mainland commie china but still not my first choice. Unfortunately the future doesn't look to promising for Taiwan these days. :/
 
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