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Originally Posted by UberRoo

If you were really desperate, you could remove the hub and disassemble it, clean everything throughly, and then braze the ball joint into the socket at whatever depth you want. It's also possible you could simply braze (or weld and re-temper) an extension onto the ball joint. Proper brazing can produce joints good for over 100,000 PSI. I figure the surface area on top of that joint (unless there's a cap or recess) is more than one square inch. Think a hundred thousand pounds is enough?

Another possibility is that you could acquire a short piece of tubing that fits nicely into the socket in the hub. If you turned down the ball joint to a diameter that fit into the tubing, you could mill a couple of holes into the side of the reduced ball joint and some corresponding holes in the tube extension into which you would drive a couple of pins to keep the joint from sliding out. The tube (with ball joint installed) would be inserted into the socket in the hub just as before, except the recess for the clamping screw would only be on one side of the extension instead of going all the way around as it does [did] on the ball joint.

Me thinks it possible.

Seems like those would work, but I'm hoping there is some way to do it without disassembling the suspension or having to weld on it and potentially mess up any heat treating.