Omega Owners Forum
Trading Area => Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted => Topic started by: johnnydog on 30 July 2020, 15:53:52
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As the title - anyone got a new (or old stock) unused genuine GM LH front wishbone (90576788) that they would be willing to sell or trade?
Checking my spare parts, I have two new genuine GM RH wishbones (90576789) packaged with GM labels, but ideally would like to make a pair, by buying a new LH (even two!) or swapping a new RH for a new LH.
I would like genuine GM to make a matched pair/s.
TIA.
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The ball joint is the only thing that makes it left or right.
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Just rebush, new ball joints, and poly-bush, the ones you have on the car.
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Whilst the point DG makes may be correct, the corrosion on the existing ones doesn't make BG's suggestion viable, so my original ask still stands... :y
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Whilst the point DG makes may be correct, the corrosion on the existing ones doesn't make BG's suggestion viable, so my original ask still stands... :y
New or corroded, people have been rebushing Omega wishbones for decades ???
If the ball joint has a knuckle on the rear face, then these are sided whilst those with no knuckles are reversible. Either way drill the rivets, and swap out/rotate the ball joint.
Both Genuine and aftermarket ball joints include the bolts for refitting them.
Also worth noting that the rrp for genuine wishbones is almost £300 :-X
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Just rebush, new ball joints, and poly-bush, the ones you have on the car.
Where does one find the ball joints ? Or rather, which of these would you recommend?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Car-Ball-Joints-for-Opel-Omega-B/33580/bn_7000401675
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I've used Delphi to good effect... Mostly because my local factors stocks them for less than a tenner. Genuine aren't particularly expensive as I recall ;)
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Only taken 2 1/2 years - but I managed to find a genuine GM one in Germany at sensible money last week. So that's me sorted with a matched pair :y
You wouldn't have thought they were that hard to find without paying extortionate US prices...... ::)
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Good job you didn't need them 2.5 years ago then ;D
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The original balljoints are more often than not in perfectly good condition and dont need to be replaced with something inferior.
I found this out after I had replaced mine as a matter of course while rebushing my wishbones. ::)
Genuine GM bushes for the rear of the wishbone and polybushes for the front. Tightens things up nicely. :y