Ball joint press damaged ball joint seat on inner C. Fix?

[Mike_H]

To add some clarity, I have yet to pull a ball joint and not find score marks from another one or more being pressed in. Yet again, we know of no lower parts of the C cracking off and failing so that means the engineers must have accounted for the stresses by overbuilding the part to prevent that sort of failure.

Probably overbuilt to the tune of 5:1 or greater.

The warranty guys get real nervous when you tell them your safety factory is only 2:1.

 

[PurpleTJAZ]

Drillium!
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Ha!! Flashback....
I wish I could say I never did anything like this when I was racing bikes, But I would be lying.