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Old Sep 22nd, 2019, 10:27   #6
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Originally Posted by John97Tdi View Post
Cheers for the reply - I'll have a look inbetween the forthcoming showers.

I tried using a jack on the control arm but the balljoint thread would still only just touch the control arm. I also tried jacking up the strut while levering down the control arm but it seemed that whatever I tried, even though the balljoint was angled as far as it would go, it would never line up and 'seat' correctly.

Thanks again.

John
volvo have a long special tool which hooks onto the arm to press it down that extra inch ...
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