i got a bad ball joint on my tie rod end and are haveing a hard time find ing a new one with the right size tapper and threads.. so was kicking around the idea of drilling out the tapper on the knuckel side and running a heims joint (got the idea from a guy at shucks) any one do this up or down i think the only problem with it is going to be heims are exposed to dirt and mud more that a ball joint!