Team Associated Heavy-Duty Ball Cup Set (Small) (12)

My opinion they are the best cups out there, bigger, last 3 times as long. I'm putting them on all my cars. There are a ton of complaints all over that they bind. Well They do! But it's easily fixed and I enjoy building so I don't mind polishing and making them perfect. I would much rather have ones that start tight and need to be worked in before you run them than sloppy from the start with less life leaving me worried they will pop off.

I`m not sure I know what`s going on, but I`ve had nothing but problems with this simple part. I bought my B5M in Oct. 2014 and from the initial build of the car these ball cups fit the ball studs too tightly. A lot of unacceptable binding resulted. I tried a new package of cups and balls but the same binding occurred. I ended up using metal polishing compound on the assembled parts and that helped quite a bit. I`m pretty sure the problem is the cups because I tried putting a new cup on a used ball stud from another Assoc. truck I have and the same problem continued. Hopefully, the problem I`m having is a short term one with the manufacture of this part. Good Luck
Update: It is now 3 weeks later than the above Review, and the good news is that the plastic `rod cups` now fit the ball ends perfectly. I bought new cups and they fit the original balls and a new set of AVID titanium balls just as they should. So hopefully the problem is over.

No more messing with the ball cups to get them free!
They have truly fixed the issues with the "older" cups!
Pop them on and you're good to go!