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Old Jan 5, 2013
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Shopping for ball joints

I had my trans rebuilt and was told I need new ball joints. I have an 02 civic ex with around 140k miles. Should I buy ball joints with or without grease fittings? I was looking at the moog mok90332, Ac delco ac45d2310. On auto parts warehouse both appear to be non-greasable. Yet on the amazon review on the moog it appears to have a grease fitting. Which ball joints has anyone replaced their ball joints with? I do get a clunking noise when I hit bumps. I'm about to jack the car up and inspect the other bushings and connectors. I just took over ownership and girlfriend said she has brakes, tires, battery and alternator replaced. So all the rubber bushings may be worn and starting to dry rot.
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Re: Shopping for ball joints

I just replaced my ball joints with MOOG K90332. While I was down there I replaced the bushings in the LCA and the sway bar links with MOOG. The links and the ball joint are greaseable. Multiple people had said the ball joints with the zerk fitting ran into the drive shaft. I don't have that issue. There is a mm or two of room which shouldn't be an issue. The issue that I did find is that when I went to grease them while installed I had to hold the grease gun on the zerk with a decent amount of force to make sure it would go into the fitting instead of all over the place. I've got about 350 miles on the MOOG parts and everything is working great. I had a separate rattling issue that I eventually discovered was just the upper strut nut had somehow gotten loose. Hope that helps!
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