just had my mot today and advised that the drivers side ball joint on the track control arm is on its way out.are they still available from ford or who has good replacements.

 

you can get adjustible track controll arms from brom on here who runs zoo motorsport for £150

 

Give them a call..best way.
You can get just the very end..I needed one for mine for MOT: can't remember if it was Ford or motor factors tho. Mark where the old one sits so you have a good starting point to getting the tracking set back up properly.

 

Go for adjustable ones if your car is lowered. Correcting the excessive camber in the front was the best single mod ever done to my car.

 

Not available from Ford and be sure to get Mk3 Escorts 1's as the Mk4's fit but arn't the same, I supplied some this week to SCC from a company called "First Line" about £20 a side

 

they must have been for my car, as it is at SCC at the moment and was told that these need changing

 

If you're going for adjustable TCA's then i would strongly advise you to go to MEF, (NutsRus on here)

What a loads of cobblers, Mk4 TCA's fit Mk3's no problem, i have a set on mine

 

Didn't say they didn't fit I said they aren't 100% right as it's either the ball joint angle or the length (can't remember which) is slightly different, fitted a set to a S1 before and didn't drive as nicely, same as fitting non powersteering arms to power assisted Fiestas, and fitting the arms that are sold on Ebay for FRST that arn't designed for FRST they are just std Mk3 arms which are listed by some companies for the FRST but FRST/XR2i/RS1800 have different arms than the rest of the Fiesta range.
There's a reason parts are listed differently and just because they fit doesn't mean they are 100% right unfortunatly sometimes the wrong parts have to do but when you can get the right bits why not use the right bits.

 

buggynut,

If its a mint S1 then that'll be yours.... tried sourcing some anti roll bar bushes as well but had no luck what so ever unfortunatly, even went through all the stock seeing if I could match something up to no avail.

 

yea must be mine then

will hopfully find out saturday if Rob could source the roll bar bushes

 

They fit fine, and MEF also develop all these products and sell them for both Mk3 & 4's, i'm sure if there was a difference in geometry they would of noticed while developing their adjustable TCA's........

I have a set of adjustables on mine and its spot on.

And you're right, there is a difference, the mk4 inner joint is rose jointed, where as the earlier ones are rubber bushed which proved to be troublesome in the long run!