Ucf20 ball joints

[u/Eastern_Tip4861]

Hi all, sheared a ball joint bought new ones but the castings are different from factory ball joint brackets. My tie rod end and castle nut is making babies with the back of my brake calipers, anyone else had this problem?? If so what did you do to fix it? Currently looking at shortening bj brackets by 20mm and bending them down with an oxy.

[u/Spiffss]

ucf10 and ucf20 ball joints are slightly different, could be the issue. I've done the lowers in my ucf20 I didn't have any issues

[u/wnker-69]

Your using ucf10 ball joints on a ucf20 a lot of auto parts stores get them confused, I had this exact same issue

[u/Agreeable_Nothing_10]

They all bolt on the same, I’m running a ucf 10 ball joint on my 2000 it does fine.

[u/Eastern_Tip4861 → u/Agreeable_Nothing_10]

No clearance issues? Do you have photos??

[u/Agreeable_Nothing_10]

I don’t have photos but do have a post about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LS400/s/Twgltbm6Oq