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Anyone taken this task on by themselves? If so how difficult is it to do and are any specialist tools needed?
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Changing bottom ball joints
- Thread starter Racingblue182
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Its easy to do.
Rust will be the biggest problem.
PS if you want my advice take the hub thing off the car then soak the parts (and I mean realy soak) in penetrating oil before you start then the bit which has the bolt through which hold this in place wedge it open and hammer the old ball joint out.
You'll need a large variety of big hammers though if they have rusted.
If I were doing it again I'd stick the hube in a vice and knock the ball joint out with a hammer and screwdriver or similar.
Rust will be the biggest problem.
PS if you want my advice take the hub thing off the car then soak the parts (and I mean realy soak) in penetrating oil before you start then the bit which has the bolt through which hold this in place wedge it open and hammer the old ball joint out.
You'll need a large variety of big hammers though if they have rusted.
If I were doing it again I'd stick the hube in a vice and knock the ball joint out with a hammer and screwdriver or similar.
Haynes suggests taking the ARB off the wishbone, loosening teh bolts and dropping the wishbone and LBJ out of the bottem of the hub.
Sounds alot easier than taking the whole hub off, brought a drive in type ball joint seperator today, gonna tackle mine tomorrow, so will report back.
To sperate my lower ball joint i soaked it in plus gas and then hammered a screwdriver into the join that the bolt tightens and then literally stood over it and pulled really f**king hard and it came off. The bolt holding it on was solid wiht rust, took a big ass breaker bar to shift it.
This was when i had the hub off for the bearing, annoying thing was this was only a couple of weeks ago.
you'll also need some thread locking compound
Sounds alot easier than taking the whole hub off, brought a drive in type ball joint seperator today, gonna tackle mine tomorrow, so will report back.
To sperate my lower ball joint i soaked it in plus gas and then hammered a screwdriver into the join that the bolt tightens and then literally stood over it and pulled really f**king hard and it came off. The bolt holding it on was solid wiht rust, took a big ass breaker bar to shift it.
This was when i had the hub off for the bearing, annoying thing was this was only a couple of weeks ago.
you'll also need some thread locking compound
Lunner I'd definatly recomend taking the whole hub and shock off in one its easier. My bolts holding the shocks on are solid so all I did was undo the top strut bolt stearing arm bit and the two bolts for the botom ball joint on the wishbone and slid it out. the ypou've got some space as you can stick the hub in a vice and hammer in the wedge and hit the ball joint from above. Plus you can do it in the warmth of a work room rarther than outside.Lunner said:
yeah forgot that.
Did mine today, can be done the way i said above, alot easier the removing the whole hub, use ball joint seperator to break the rust,a nd then hannered a screw driver up to wedge the joint ovpen and bal joint fell out, removed bottem bolts forst.
Alot easier then taking the whole hub off
Did mine today, can be done the way i said above, alot easier the removing the whole hub, use ball joint seperator to break the rust,a nd then hannered a screw driver up to wedge the joint ovpen and bal joint fell out, removed bottem bolts forst.
Alot easier then taking the whole hub off
