Ball joint for parts of the steering or wheel suspension of motor vehicles

A ball joint for motor vehicle steering parts and wheel suspension parts, comprising a housing having first and second conical tapering inner wall portions, a plastic bearing shell fitted in the housing, and a joint pin having a spherical head operatively received in the plastic bearing shell, wherein the plastic bearing shell is divided by a slot extending at an angle to an equatorial plane of the plastic bearing shell, which plane is located transversely to a cylindrical outer wall portion of the shell between first and second conical tapering outer walls of the shell and is flexible in a radial direction of the spherical head, the housing has a cylindrical receiving inner wall portion located between the first and second conical tapering inner wall portions and in an area of the equatorial plane of the shell and is configured to mate with the cylindrical outer wall portion of the shell, a bush is press-fitted into the cylindrical receiving inner wall portion of the housing so as to brace the shell against the first conical tapering inner wall portion of the housing, which first conical tapering inner wall portion of the housing is more remote from the joint pin than is the second conical tapering inner wall portion and is configured to receive the first conical tapering outer wall portion of the plastic bearing shell and which second conical tapering inner wall portion is arranged on the bush and is configured to receive the second conical tapering outer wall portion of the shell, and the bush is provided with a flange arranged to limit the depth to which the bush is inserted into the housing and configured to be fixed relative to the housing by a flanged wall area of the housing.