Your planning on making tubular arms to suit another balljoint ?
1200's never had uppers... due to the strut
What do mean by mountings sticking out the side ?
 
You can always run a tapered reamer thru the stub axle to accept a different joint

I've thought about this also
 
Even considered Holden upper ball joints as they bolt in also
But either way would need a reamer for the tapers in the stud
 
Try to find a balljoint book with all the tapers etc listed and balljoints with pics
Will make your job alot easier
I had one... can't find it atm
 
Would love some tubular uppers arms too ... when you decide to make some

Why bother when you can have correct new ones? 

SharmCos, Making a new upper control arm with a common balljoint will just make finding upper balljoints in the future easier.
They are hard to find in Australia.
 
And also upper control arm bushes are hard to find so making a custom upper control arm fixes fixes the problem of finding those as well.
 
What's the avialibility like over in Malaysia on these parts?
I see you have found some of them already in another topic.
http://www.datsun1000.com/TopicView.asp?TopicID=471

well everything thing i need to make one arm is on its way over from USA. got adjustment arms, bushings, ball joint plate and a couple other little bits.
 
Another plus is i was talking to my mate at applied laser and he say's he'll have a look at the balljoint plate i ordered and hopefully be able to adapt the 1000 balljoint into that. if that goes well i can get some laser cut, make a jig and then wuulla. then all i'll have left is the cross shaft which im still brain storming ideas for.
 
D - Yea i dont wanna make it to complicated, i will never get it finished if that happens
 
SharmCos - it pretty well started because i brought some really wide wheels with low offset and didn't like the idea of upper control arm spacers to get camber, plus as beetwenty stated 1000 bits and pieces are hard to get and often have a high price tag, the amount i've spent on NOS parts is worth more than my car lol and for the life of me can't understand why there cars sell for less than there 1200 brother
 
edit - you'll find plenty of people interested, you must of posted just before me lol

There you go mate http://www.datsun1000.com/TopicView.asp?TopicID=473
 
Sorry for hijacking your thread ThouUte 

Why make it to suit a balljoint thats NLA ?
 
I'd be picking something readily available like a Torana upper BJ that bolts in with 4 bolts.... if the taper is close enough or the stub is reamable

 
I just measured one of the 555 ones like in the pic above.
Measurements I got were...top 11mm - base 12.3mm tapering down over a distance of 13.5mm.
 
The rubber boot made things hard to measure, (It's a tough little sucker).
 
Those numbers should get you close.

Thinking about those numbers...
 
12.3mm - 11mm = 1.3mm gain over 13.5mm length.
 
So roughly 10:1  eg 10mm length changes 1mm diammeter.
Do you think that could be a standard taper size?
It sounds as if it could be a metric standard? if such a thing exists?
That would make sense on a Japanese car.

My old racecar
But it had Torana upper balljoints and stubs