Lower ball joint replacement 89 GTA
05-14-2003, 07:31 PM
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Lower ball joint replacement 89 GTA
I need to replace lower ball joint on GTA and was wondering how hard it is and the procedure? I have done them on cars without struts. But have never done them with strut front ends.
05-14-2003, 08:49 PM
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Car: Malibu 80, T/A 87, S-15 87
Engine: 267 Bu, 305 T/A, 350 S-15
Transmission: Auto Bu, 5spd T/A, Auto S-15
yes this is the right way to do it...
last time i did a pressed balljoint it took me some times to pop it out and but it in, because i'm not very strong, but that's how i do, exept i use a floor jack and a big socket instead (so it pushes on the bottom of balljoint around the zerk hole) of the bottle jack, if you but in a greasable balljoint you dont want to mess the grease fitting hole!!! happend to me once, but used a tap and it was fix...
last time i did a pressed balljoint it took me some times to pop it out and but it in, because i'm not very strong, but that's how i do, exept i use a floor jack and a big socket instead (so it pushes on the bottom of balljoint around the zerk hole) of the bottle jack, if you but in a greasable balljoint you dont want to mess the grease fitting hole!!! happend to me once, but used a tap and it was fix...
05-15-2003, 12:18 AM
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Car: '87 Camaro LT
Engine: 355 L98
Transmission: T56
i just did my ball joints over the winter and wrote up a little article on it too. http://ukrainetrain21.tripod.com/ukrainetrain/id20.html
05-15-2003, 12:44 PM
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I used the method from mmr23s link just a few weeks ago and it worked great. I even used an old hydraulic jack instead of a bottle jack and everything went fine.. No special tools used other than pickle fork to seperate the spindle from the old ball joint
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05-15-2003, 08:14 PM
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Car: 1986 pontiac TA
Engine: 360 HSR
Transmission: 700r4 3300 yank converter
Axle/Gears: 3.27 9 bolt
yeah. i modified the text to read use a socket the same size so not to damage the thread hole for the zerk fitting. just did another car 2 days ago. 1.5 hours.
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