Any off you smarty pant TLB ers know the angle of the tie rod ball joint taper or even better could point me in the direction of a reamer to suit? I've measured the ball joint and done the maths but would like a second or a hundredth opinion on the angle as what I've managed to come up with is not quite what I thought it may be!
If you know the dia at top and bottom of the taper, and the distance top to bottom along the tapered surface I'll work it out for you. Actually I'm too lazy to work it out, but I'll draw using CAD and measure it.
Cheers Zed, I make it 12.67 mm at top and 14.1 mm at the bottom, length 17.36 mm,these measurements don't look right to me and my calculations certainly aren't right. Maybe it's the cheap vernier calipers I bought! I'd like to see what your calculations come out at.
Overall taper = 4.717 degs or 2.358 degs each side if you see what I mean. It doesn't look tapered enough on the screen. I can't post it because photobucket want me to agree to some terms and conditions and I'm an awkward sod. I can't see how to host them on here.
Thanks zed,that was roughly the figure I was getting. I'm sure I saw somewhere on the interweb that the balljoints where 7 degrees that's why I'm a little confused! Cheers oscar, I like that app, what's it called?
