On Sun, March 5, 2006 8:07 pm, Alberto Aguirre Jr wrote:
>
> I just spent ALL of saturday and part of sunday doing
> my balljoints. I decided against even bothering with
> the bushings....luckily they seem in good condition.
> The top balljoint was easy, but we were learning as we
> went and the bottom balljoint was a pain. The air
> chisel technique shaved nothing. Perhaps higher
> quality tools were needed. I then went with grinding
> the head but the rivets go through 3 layers of metal.
> The lower control arm has like a pocket that the ball
> joint slides into. No amount of pounding, with air
> tool or by hand, would make them budge. So we drilled
> them through. The reverse wasnt so tough.
> One we woke up the next day.....yeah i know....we
> started the second side. This time the lower ones we
> ground down to where they were flat, using the size of
> the rivet we drilled in an amount so once we ground
> them away completely, we could find the center amongst
> the shiny surface. Then we drilled each one about 1/2
> to 3/4 of the way. After which a few whacks and the
> rivets popped out. What we spent 8 hours doing on
> Saturday took us 3 on Sunday. Well at least I saved
> $200-$400 depending on where I went, and learned about
> balljoint replacement ;)
Glad to hear that things went well for you!
I'm sorry to hear the air chisel didn't work as intended, perhaps the
difference is in the bits used.
Be sure to get it aligned now, you don't want to wear out tires.
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