Alba racing a ams

I just bought and installed these. I am pretty satisfied with the quality for the price. The a-arms are +1.5 inches on each side and +1 forward (which the ad does not state for some reason). The kit comes with everything you need and the tie rods are beefy. Another good thing is i didn't have to buy extended brake lines, but i have an 03 with hydro brakes so i'm not sure about 88-02 models
 
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in another thread about these a-arms, it was brought to our attention that the top ball joint is of the 03-06 style with the castle nut only, not the pinch bolt style needed by 88-02 blasters.
an alba representitive went on to explain they include some collar with a slot to be used on the 88-02 models.

just last week i received a text with this picture from one of our members, of what i beleive is that collar ?
FAILED after only a few rides, which allowed the ball joint to pop up and out of the spindle, luckily it happened at a slow speed.

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if that is not the pinch bolt adapter collar, could someone with these arms chime in and explain just what it is ?
either way, there was a failure, and our members deserve to know about it.
 
Awk08 said:
in another thread about these a-arms, it was brought to our attention that the top ball joint is of the 03-06 style with the castle nut only, not the pinch bolt style needed by 88-02 blasters.
an alba representitive went on to explain they include some collar with a slot to be used on the 88-02 models.

just last week i received a text with this picture from one of our members, of what i beleive is that collar ?
FAILED after only a few rides, which allowed the ball joint to pop up and out of the spindle, luckily it happened at a slow speed.
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Wow... Sounds like big trouble for Alba? Hopefully our member is ok. I forget wasnt their a dispute with something being aluminum, that wasnt about the collar was it?
 
BlasterFun484 said:
Wow... Sounds like big trouble for Alba? Hopefully our member is ok. I forget wasnt their a dispute with something being aluminum, that wasnt about the collar was it?
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yep, it sure was about that exact collar, if thats what is pictured ?
i just got the text, haven't talked to this member yet.
i'll ask if he'd like to chime in on this
 
well, I have 03+ spindles. Just got them from Bluesman. That's part of the reason I'm getting these. I just ordered a set. We'll see how it goes
 
Wow, that could have been much worse. Good thing it happened at slow speed.
 
I hate to disagree with awk, but since my name is mentioned in this thread, I thought I should chime in. ALL years of Blasters use the pinch bolt type spindle for the upper ball joint. I will agree that the collar thingy seems cheesy.
 
snowrider said:
I just bought and installed these. I am pretty satisfied with the quality for the price. The a-arms are +1.5 inches on each side and +1 forward (which the ad does not state for some reason). The kit comes with everything you need and the tie rods are beefy. Another good thing is i didn't have to buy extended brake lines, but i have an 03 with hydro brakes so i'm not sure about 88-02 models
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did you have to use the collars on the upper ball joints?
 
yes I did , they are working good although I don't have a lot of hours on them yet. From what I can tell in that picture the upper ball joint somehow pulled out of the threaded collar. Mine seems nice and tight but time will tell
 
Bluesman said:
I hate to disagree with awk, but since my name is mentioned in this thread, I thought I should chime in. ALL years of Blasters use the pinch bolt type spindle for the upper ball joint. I will agree that the collar thingy seems cheesy.
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thats not disagreeing, thats setting me straight :)

I'm really not familiar with the 03+ hydro spindles, as i have KOR converted spindles on both my bikes.
I only assumed they'd be the same as banshee hydro spindles/balls, and that was the reason alba used some adapter collar instead of just using the correct pinch bolt style ball joint.
 
Bluesman said:
I hate to disagree with awk, but since my name is mentioned in this thread, I thought I should chime in. ALL years of Blasters use the pinch bolt type spindle for the upper ball joint. I will agree that the collar thingy seems cheesy.
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Sorry but YOU are wrong. Some do NOT have pinch bolt tops and use a ball joint pressed type which causes issues if your spindle is a pinch bolt and your using a reg ball joint, had a few blasters at the same time that had both styles of spindles drum AND disc ALL stock and was a PITA trying to build one good setup between it all
 
Had 2 disc spindles of each and 3 drum of each style, ill see if i can dig up pics this weekend, almost couldnt build my +3+1 asr pinch style with my good pinch style disc (had just sold a disc set and thought i sold the pinch instead which would have left me with ball joint but i lucked out and sold the ball jount spindle instead)
 
This I gotta see. Post a pic of a Blaster with stock A arms and tapered fit type upper ball joints. Would like to see it in the parts diagram too. I have/have had an 89, 00, 03, and 05, and I've worked on a few others. All had pinch bolts.
 
Got my a arms yesterday, everything is good except they dont have grease zurts, so tonight I'm gonna go drill and tap some holes for them.
 
Mert said:
Got my a arms yesterday, everything is good except they dont have grease zurts, so tonight I'm gonna go drill and tap some holes for them.
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let me know how you like those a arms.ive been wanting to get a set but i haven't really found any reviews.
 
Well, I drilled and tapped the holes for the grease fittings then figured out that the bushings they give you wont work with the grease fittings. These have a steel piece that presses into the a arm on each side and then a springy steel sleeve with a coating inside of it pops into place into that. (see pics below) The steel piece that you press in the a arm is longer than the plastic ones in the original a arms, so it would block off the grease fitting. So.... now I ordered a set of stock plastic bushings and I'm ditching all this steel bushing bullshit.
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the only thing you NEED to buy at harbor freight, a cobalt drill set for 70 something bucks with a coupon
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I'm working on top of my trash can because I dont have ac in my garage and it was really nice out
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