Re: Ball Joint and shock replacement problems...

From: Josh Battles (josh.lists@omg-stfu.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 09:51:36 EST


On Tue, February 28, 2006 10:51 pm, Eric Hufstedler wrote:
>
>> You could probably break the axle nut loose with the wheel still
>> on the ground actually.
>>
>> I wouldn't think it necessary. Why not just unbolt the joint at
>> the knuckle and drop the lower the control arm a little? You
>> could wedge a block of wood under the upper arm so that the
>> spring tension would even do the seperation for you.
>
> Wouldn't that be possibly explosive?

Definately not on a 4x4 (they have torsion bars instead of coils), and not on
a 4x2 as long as you begin with the suspension fully compressed (all the
weight on it) you shouldn't have any issues. We're only talking moving it an
inch at most, just enough to seperate the balljoint. The rest you can move
by hand.

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