Disassembling the front control arm ball joint |
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Disassembling the front control arm ball joint |
chris914 |
May 9 2005, 10:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 489 Joined: 24-July 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 2,393 Region Association: Southern California |
I’m replacing the front control bushings and putting in turbo tie rods.
Which is easier to get the control arm out? 1.) Removing the strut and the ball joint from the control arm, or 2.) Removing the strut from the ball joint and leaving the ball joint in the control arm. |
TravisNeff |
May 9 2005, 11:22 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,082 Joined: 20-March 03 From: Mesa, AZ Member No.: 447 Region Association: Southwest Region |
Once you have your balljoint bolt/pin removed place a jack under the rotor hat and jack it up a ways to take the load off, whack the A-arm with a BFH a couple times and it will pop right off. Those nuts on the ball joint are a bitch to remove, I waited till I got an alignment and had the shop replace them, they only charged me an hour but said it took them over a couple hours to bust them free.
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