Replacing Ball joints
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RE: Replacing Ball joints
ORIGINAL: DrBob67
Just to clarify things. As far as I can tell I am not having any front end problems everything seems fine. The reason that I was asking about the ball joints is that when I inspected them the rubber boot or bushing what ever you call it is cracked and deteriorating. My motivation was more to replace the bushing but I might as well replace the ball joint while I'm at it. And then as others have mentioned there are other things to do while I'm in there. So I'll do some more research and at some point I'll get all up into the suspension and see what's what. The control arms and spindle seem to be fine no visible cracks so I'm thinging the stuff that will need to be replaced are soft parts that have broken down and deteriorated. After all after 40 years what do you expect.
BTW I had never heard of a pickle fork, so I checked it out. I guess there is one more tool I might need.
http://www.costplustools.com/store-p...Kit_40092.html
ORIGINAL: Soaring
I'm not quite sure I understand the problem. Is the upper control arm cracked? How do you know the ball joint needs replacing? How is the front end acting?
I'm not quite sure I understand the problem. Is the upper control arm cracked? How do you know the ball joint needs replacing? How is the front end acting?
BTW I had never heard of a pickle fork, so I checked it out. I guess there is one more tool I might need.
http://www.costplustools.com/store-p...Kit_40092.html
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From: San Diego, CA
RE: Replacing Ball joints
ORIGINAL: Soaring
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I'm still learning about acronyms When you say BFH I assume the B is for Big and the H is for Hammer, And lets just see what could the F be for.
Here is the internet acronymn dictonary to help me out.
http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/?lookup=B
There sure are a lot of acronyms that start with BF I think my favorite one is BFOG
Just type in BFH on google, then get the Urban dictionary. It's the first definition.
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