ball joints removal help

ipg · Post by **ipg** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:18 pm

hi everyone

i have a ball joint that will not budge

i have tried using the ball joint remover tool. it worked on 3 of them just cant get it to work on the last one. it is a lower ball joint.

what is the last resort?

cheers
patrick

Devilrod · Post by **Devilrod** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:15 pm

Hydraulic Press...

smooth · Post by **smooth** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:45 pm

add some heat.

Regards, Smooth

ipg · Post by **ipg** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:57 pm

thanks guys

to let you know i broke the mallet and bent the hammer whacking it on the ball joint remover

just quietly i think repco ripped me off @ 60 bucks for the remover tool <-but then again i dont get a trade discount

anyway so what i did is rig up one side of the cross member with the upper and lower arms and stub with the spring in it cos i thought the spring would add some pressure...but it didnt do squat.

then i jammed the remover tool inthe gap so it was sticking out parallel with the disc brake stub. i picked up the whole cross member and drove it into the ground as hard as i could <---this worked

YAY

put the stub on the new cross member and fitted up the front r&p

will have some piccies soon as i could only find one of this setup but that was on fefcholden.org.au

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:22 pm

yeah springs will never work, they will usually act as a shock absorber and cussion the impact.

i've always had good luck supporting the bottom control arm on a axle stand then flogging the crap out of the ball joint shaft with a hammer, as its being replaced it doesn't matter what the hammer does to it