The upper ball joints on my ABS-equipped ’99 have seen better days; the boots are split and I’m hearing some clunking sounds. It seems I have three options:
- Buy new OEM ($$$)
- Buy used from a recycler (ABS arms are harder to find, and would be at least 12 years old…)
- Buy new from Mevotech or similar.
Who has experience specifically with Mevotech UCA’s for the NB miata? How’s the initial quality & fitment, and do they last? The price is attractive but I don’t want to install junk… I’ve used Mevotech swaybar endlinks before in a different application and they are holding up fine, but control arms are a bit more critical.
The car is driven in summer only, low total miles per year, but will attend the occasional autocross and/or track night (once I get a real roll bar).
Thanks!
I had the same conundrum with my '94 a couple of years ago. Joe Ramos, one of the techs at FlyinMiata recommended these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LUXYTJY/
I had my local machine shop press them in and tack weld them as Joe recommended. I've had no problems with them thus far... to be fair I only drive my car in the summer but I do autocross and track night it. I assume you could do the same with a '99... fairly sure the control arms are the same although I'd verify that to be sure.
moxnix
HalfDork
8/6/17 6:46 a.m.
Upper ball joints are different in the nb so you can't use the Moog replacements.
Any other thoughts on this?
OMG it's therieldeal!!! You may remember me from feoa as F-16Wrench. I still race my Escort and I have an NB too 
moxnix wrote:
Upper ball joints are different in the nb so you can't use the Moog replacements.
Learn something new every day.
Otherwise I have no idea, sorry.
