Shop fabbed Ball Joint Fixture for Lower Control Arm Fabrication

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Building the Lower Control Arms for my van project required a book matched set of fixtures to hold the lower ball stud mounting plates in position.
I designed these in 3D CAD and built them in the shop. Setting ball joint angles precisely was the important part.

This is a compound tip. 4 1/2 deg down and 3 degs in. Modeling the pieces in 3D let me measure everything very accurately. A few cuts in the bandsaw and a little time on the belt sander and everything was good.

This is the piece I am locating. It bolts into the fixture which is then screwed down to my jig table.



See next post.