I understand what your saying and about where to put the chain, but the force of the hydro's goes into the cylinder which when extended to full length will pass the stress into the top mount or donut in the old shock tower - not the ball joint, unless you're using 'floating rams' then i guess it will go to the bolts holding the A-Arm to the chassis and then transferred to the chassis itself, i cant see it ever getting to the ball joint ?
In my experience ball joints only break when you try to repeatedly move them outside of their range, they become weak and eventually break, a well designed system should never put the components out of their normal range ?
If a ball joint is going to break due to loading surely they'll both break as the load is shared between them, not just the top one ?
obviously you have much more experience in this than myself and i'm definately not saying your wrong, far from it, I guess i still have a lot to learn, but we do things slightly differently on this side of the pond, its good to learn new stuff.
[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: Unity_Jon ]</p>