Re: Re: 1955 Traction 11B “Barn Find” Project

[Anonymous]

I received some more info on the bottom ball joint. Originally Citroen put in a 0.05mm shim between the upper bearing race and the middle spacer. This was to allow adjustment later on when the ball joint wore a little and the shim could be removed. Both of mine still had the shim installed. But even with that removed there is not enough adjustment.

So I was advised to remove the middle spacer which acts as a conduit for the greasing and discard it. (new ball joints do not come with the inner ring spacer).

I first tried to smooth off the ball and the bearing race a little more using valve cutting paste and sticking the ball in the drill. It seems to have worked a treat.

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I then installed it without the middle ring spacer and voila – I have a much better fitting lower ball joint. But to make it better and easier to adjust (instead of inserting different size shims) I have ordered an after market adjuster cap to replace the existing ones.

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This should do the trick and even without it now it is nice and smooth with very little play now I have squirted the grease in there. 😀 😀