[screamingchief]

Ok,this is getting kinda tedious,I'm not out to try and educate the world or anything like that,take my comments for what they are,or leave them be,does'nt really matter to me.

I said it should all sqeeze out when it is assembled and torqued to spec,but that does'nt necessarily mean that it will all squeeze out when it's assembled.

It is entirely possible that if enough "lube" is present,and it somehow gets "trapped" in there,that it could potentially disrupt said interference fit via a "hydraulic" sorta situation,you are aware of what hydraulics are all about,right?

That's how a 200 lb guy lifts a 4000 pound car,right.

Or how a couple of small bottle jacks can lift a house.

Well,that thin layer of "lube" you seem to feel is so harmless could easily get trapped between those two parts and affect the BJ's interference fit in that taper portion of the spindle,but hey,most anything is possible,especially when a guy goes and makes up his mind that he knows better than everyone else that has come before him.

As for the exact thread I was thinking of,hell it could've be this one @ chevelles.com too,this one comes up when one does a "ball joint failure" search of the web via yahoo or google.

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198416

I'm not registered over @ pro-touring,so I can't do a search there.

Often a fella wont be warned against doing something,solely because it assumed that he would'nt do anything stupid or unecessary in the first place.

Unfortunately it seems common sense is'nt as common as it used to be.

IE: Why would someone park on a hill w/o putting the car in park or hitting the Ebrake?

Do you really need to be warned to do something like that???

Sigh...

The way to seperate BJ's is to break that interferece fit by momentarily interupting it.

IE: smack the snot outta the spindle with a BFH in the area around the BJ stud.

Guys always freak out when you tell them that,then they'll start arguing that your going to ruin the spindle doing that,yadda,yadda,yadda and then there is a whole bunch more useless debate back & forth,but in the real world that's just how it's done.

Anyhow,this thread seems to be going nowhere I wanna go,amounting to arguing solely for the sake of arguing,and that does nothing for me,so have @ it w/o me from here on.

You wanna prove me wrong,just go ahead and go out there and find me a single reputable suspension parts manufacturer,OEM automotive manufacturer,or any published automotive service manuals or textbookks that recommend lubricating the tapered portion of these BJ studs as part & parcel to installing said BJ.

Call Howe,call Moog,call any BJ Co. and ask them what they think about this.

I already know what their answer will be...

So I stand on what I've already said here,if you dont wanna see the truth here,I cant make you see it.

Bret P.