UCA JBA Ball Joint Replacement, without grease nipple- Y/N?

Pippobug · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:40 am

Hi,

After 45K miles I need to replace my UCA Ball joint in JBA arms as they have warn out and are now leaking grease. I looked on JBA for the replacement and could find the ones with the grease nipple, are the new one non greasable? are they good?

Fil.

Pippobug · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:35 am

Well in the end I ordered from JBA the replacement Ball Joints for my 4.5 arms. Having said that it seams (from the photos & description) they come without greasable nipple, I would have preferred the old ones but there is no option on the site to order them with. Maybe next time in another 45K mile ;-)

JeepMorrison · **Joined:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:34 am **Posts:** 1236

They are chevy ball joint. Moogs still have grease zerk.

Pippobug · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:14 pm

I have just ordered these ones from JBA and I can't see a grease nipple on them, please correct me if I am wrong and I will be a happy man

Fil.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:43 pm

Pippobug wrote:

I have just ordered these ones from JBA and I can't see a grease nipple on them, please correct me if I am wrong and I will be a happy man

Fil.

They have the grease zerk, you can see the hole in the top for the zerk

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:44 pm

Pippobug wrote:

Well in the end I ordered from JBA the replacement Ball Joints for my 4.5 arms. Having said that it seams (from the photos & description) they come without greasable nipple, I would have preferred the old ones but there is no option on the site to order them with. Maybe next time in another 45K mile ;-)

Only 45,000 miles?
Do you grease them?
Mine have lasted 3 times that amount and still going on this set

Pippobug · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:25 am

tommudd wrote:

Only 45,000 miles? - YES only
Do you grease them? - YES
Mine have lasted 3 times that amount and still going on this set - I hope the next lot do to.

All the rubber has split and as you grease them it come out onto the springs. I am not sure what happend, I have had the UCA now over 4 yr. Maybe they got damaged banging against the coils at full extention not sure but the end result is I need new one.

tommudd wrote:

They have the grease zerk, you can see the hole in the top for the zerk

- Thank you for confriming this, I couldn't see from the photo if they did or not 100%, but they are what I was looking for.

Fil.

Pippobug · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:06 am

Just to confirm that they are gone (sorry for poor quality of pictures)

Here you can see the split better

JdubKJ03 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:39 pm

Wow, Yep good thing you replaced them. Do they use salt on the roads over there? Lots of corrosion going on.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:49 pm

people that aren't as religious with their greasing tend to do better with no zerk, I usually try to use sealed ujoints because I'm less likely to crawl up under it to grease my ujoints, balljoints on the other hand I'm pretty religious with that, also don't have to lay on the ground to do it

guess I'm getting old?

Pippobug · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:49 am

JdubKJ03 wrote:

Wow, Yep good thing you replaced them. Do they use salt on the roads over there? Lots of corrosion going on.

Yes we do get a lot of Salt of here in Winter and sadly to where to properly steam clean the under carriage of the Jeep when they stop salting the road.

Jeepin'WNC · **Joined:** Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:48 am **Posts:** 191

I recently replaced the ball joint one of my JBA arms due to a torn boot; I bought the Moog joint from a local parts store....Hated it, couldn't get the boot to stay in place. It did not look like the one shown in your pic, it had a red boot... I found that the Dana/Spicer ball joint with the blue boot and retainer ring made into the boot (what came on my JBA arms when I bought them) had been bought out by Raybestos, which was available through Carquest, which is being absorbed by NAPA...that balljoint is now part of the NAPA chassis parts line....I don't know if this will be of any help, being that you're not in "the states", but maybe it'll help someone....

Pippobug · **Posted:** Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:33 am

Now two years on and my Upper control Ball Joint have play in both of them, so need replacing.
I have gone onto the JBA website and things have moved on a bit. Can someone confirm that these will fit my arms: http://jeepinbyal.com/jba-upper-ball-joints-srt.html JBA Upper Ball Joint Fits Gen 6.6 SRT A-arms, Replacement Ball joint Fits Al's Upper A-Arms, Gen 6.6 RAYBESTOS 500-1024 Ball Joint, Upper-Professional Grade Suspension Ball Joint.
I can't find my old one that came with the code: JBA-4.5.02 on the website any more

Any help appreciated.

Fil.

Myke · **Posted:** Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:02 am

Anyone have any tips for greasing the jba balljoints? I have the latest gen. Almost seems like the boot doesn't fit properly. I'll post up a pic.

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tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:18 pm

JBA now has their own line of ball joints ( rebuildable ones )
Been running them about a year or so, work great, more articulation etc
They're on there

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:19 pm

Myke wrote:

Anyone have any tips for greasing the jba balljoints? I have the latest gen. Almost seems like the boot doesn't fit properly. I'll post up a pic.

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Mine fits better then stock ever did, did you install the washers ?

Myke · **Posted:** Tue Apr 11, 2017 10:10 pm

tommudd wrote:

Myke wrote:

Anyone have any tips for greasing the jba balljoints? I have the latest gen. Almost seems like the boot doesn't fit properly. I'll post up a pic.

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Mine fits better then stock ever did, did you install the washers ?

Yeah I did I'll take a pic

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Pippobug · **Posted:** Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:35 am

tommudd wrote:

JBA now has their own line of ball joints ( rebuildable ones )
Been running them about a year or so, work great, more articulation etc
They're on there

Tom,
I went for the original ones again but I guess that in another 2/3 years might go for the rebuild able ones. My problem with them is getting the part to do that over here in the UK but the extra movement in them (if I have known that before buying the last set) would be great I suppose.

Tks,

Fil.

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