Ball Joint Rod Ends

LS Ball Joint Rod Ends, technical data, rules and guidelines, fitting and lubrication information

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Ball joint rod ends have a ball joint housing with a sphered convex inside surface and a ball joint shank with a correspondingly sphered but concave outside surface. Ball joint housing is with left or right-hand thread. There are two kinds of sliding contact surfaces: steel to steel and steel to zinc base alloy.

Ball joint housing is made of zinc base alloy or carbon steel, ball joint shank is made of a steel ball and a stud which is joined by precision welding, it has characteristics of self-aligning, wear-resistance and easy mounting.

Tolerances for ball joint rod ends

Shank or housing of ball joint

d  mm ∆dmp  um ∆h1s  um
over incl. max. min. max. min.
－ 6 0 -30 +800 -1200
6 10 0 -36 +800 -1200
10 18 0 -43 +800 -1200
18 30 0 -52 +800 -1200

 

Rings of ball joint housing

D  mm ∆Dmp  um ∆Cs  um
over incl. max. min. max. min.
10 18 0 -27 +100 -100
18 30 0 -33 +100 -100
30 50 0 -39 +100 -100

 

Radial internal clearance of ball joint rod ends

Type Group normal  umm
min. max.
SQD… 20 80
SQZ…-RS 0 30
SQ…-RS, SQY…-RS 20 60
SQG… 0 80

 

Fits of ball joint rod ends

Thread

Male thread Female thread
6g 6H

 

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