sksummers Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 I thought I would share this with you guys. We took a trip to Little Sahara last weekend. Our first ride out we were running the trails along the fence line. I stopped and let the pack go ahead of me and hung back with my wife, she rides an '87 Banshee. I followed her through an S turn, part way through I thought her left tire looked kind of funny, she slowed a little for the switch back and suddenly came to a stop and went up onto the handle bars. The lower left ball joint had seperated. I felt really fortunate that this didn't happen when I was ripping down the drag strip WOT about 10 minutes earlier. As I was searching this board on a-arms and ball joints I noticed this same thing has happened to many other Banshee owners. I've personally witnessed a lower ball joint failure on an LT250 that was going about 35mph, it was nasty. As this seems to be a consistent weak point on the Banshee I hope everyone takes the time to double check the condition of the lower ball joints. My plan is to modify the stock A-Arms to accept a replaceable aftermarket ball joint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixitrod Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Good point.... check your balls joint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledofthezep Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 My balls are fine. I checked last weekend as a matter of fact before I went to LS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
. Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 I've got aftermarket balls. They're bigger and stronger and pound up against stuff longer than those little stock ones :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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