Thread: Having a Ball Joint problem.

.. EVERYTHING YOU DID THERE CAN BE DONE WITHIN 30 MINS ON BOTH SIDES WITH AN AIR COMPRESSOR AND PRY BAR.

.. EVERYTHING YOU DID THERE CAN BE DONE WITHIN 3 MINS ON BOTH SIDES WITH SUPERMAN STRENGTH.

Under normal circumstances, I would agree. My red car has never given me a problem removing the control arms and ball joints.

this car, however. I have a 60-gal air tank, impact, air hammer, air ratchet, pry bar, breaker bar with a pipe, full set of impact sockets, I rented a pickle fork with air hammer attachment.

One of the bolts was so rusted, it may as well have been welded. The Impact did nothing, I used a 5-foot length of pipe and I'm glad I didn't break my socket. It took me 2 minutes of hammering with the pickle fork (air hammer) to break loose. The Ball joint had to be pressed out. 10-lb steel mallet didn't even scratch, air hammer just deformed it.

Lol Ben....ha


Good you finally got it figured out man.

Dudeman

I had to take that nut off this weekend. Just hit it with a REALLLY big hammer. I bought new ball joints from AZ and it came with the cotter pins in the package.

rusted bolts.. its a huge snag

Anyone tru the harbor freight ball joint seperatoe aka the l bar

No, but their pickle forks suck balls. One of my friends needed one so we went cheap and bought one at harbor freight. We got back to his place and i swear it was 2 hits with the hammer and the pickle fork broke in half. Needles to say it was quite funny. We went and bought a better one at sears if i remember correctly.

a damn hammer man.... looking to much into this. BTW did you take the round cotter pin off 1st?

Don't worry, crew, I managed to get it off...2 months ago.

Thank god for an air hammer.