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> Disassembling the front control arm ball joint
chris914
post May 9 2005, 10:34 PM
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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.
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post May 10 2005, 11:13 AM
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QUOTE (Travis Neff @ May 9 2005, 09:22 PM)
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.

"A couple of hours"? For a job that shouldn't take over 10-15 minutes per side? Even if the ball joints were stuck in the struts, it still shouldn't have taken even a half hour per side.
Perhaps they didn't have a clue .......................... The Cap'n
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chris914   Disassembling the front control arm ball joint   May 9 2005, 10:34 PM
Mueller   <...   May 9 2005, 11:12 PM
Series9   #2   May 9 2005, 11:15 PM
Travis Neff   Once you have your balljoint bolt/pin removed plac...   May 9 2005, 11:22 PM
Cloudbuster   Number 2! I lost track of what I was doing an...   May 10 2005, 09:48 AM
rhodyguy   loosen the balljoint/control arm clamping nut befo...   May 10 2005, 10:59 AM
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