Hey guys. I am in the middle of taking the transmission out to change my clutch and I got stuck. I don't know what the problem is, but my lower ball joint will not seperate from the lower control arm. We have tried just about everythign we can think of to get them undone, I rented the seperator from autozone and it didn't seem to help. It jsut seems like they are so rusted together that they are fused together. How expensive are ball joints for our car? because I'm real close to just hacking away at them and buying new ones lol. any advice would be great!

 

use a torch and burn the old ones off if u have to

 

yea you might as well.

is it only one or both ball joints

 

both of the lower ball joints are beign ridiculous, how much is a set of new ones?

 

You can get a set of adjustable camber ingalls ball joints for about $100 on ebay, that's what i'd do since you plan to lower anyway

 

adjustable lower ball joints?

 

$45

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BALL-...QQcmdZViewItem

 

Was drunk as shit up in niagra, didn't see the lower part, my bad

 

haha, nice

I got them seperated, thx guys

 

when all is said and done, tell me how it went. i need to get a new clutch after christmas and I want to replace it with my dad ( labor)

 

ehh, so far its been a pain lol, taking the tranny physically out of the car took forever, i might take some pics of some things that we did to make it easier, it really isn't that hard, we just hit a couple problems here and there, but its definitely do-able, just make sure you have some form of an impact wrench or gun because some of the bolts are real tough to get out

 

Impact wrench is a must

 

niagra sucks, maybe i didnt appreciate it cuz im not 21 yet. but i felt like was in central jersey again, with waterfalls.

 

You only need to be 19 up there, but it's expensive, and it's a giant tourist trap. Had a blast though, tried to get silverCL to come out and meet us, but he's :ghey:

 

chris your just getting old, the knowledge is slipping

 

Watch it!!!!!!

 

watch it youngin :killer:

I was drunk as shit, molson canadian and crown flows like water up there

 

ya ya, if i wasn't at the leaf game on Saturday i woulda went up and Sunday i was just done..but ya, i know

and it's all about being 19 and able to drink ...gotta love

 

oh and as for teh balls joints, they're gay...i remember when i didn mine and the socket fuckin seized onto it and didn't want to home off no matter what...

so of course i take my sledge hammer (portuguese style, that's right) and smash the fuck out of it but no, it didn't come off,instead it came flying at my ankle like a bat out of hell...

lets just say that i was down for the count and then some..but of course my buddies loved it..

..anyways, the moral of this is that balljoint + seized socket + sledge hammer =

 

Yeah those lower ball joints are a bitch. I had to pund them out with a 10lb hammer. After so many hits they came out but after so many hits the threaded stud bent on me. I bought 2 new joints at autozone. $20 a piece.

 

well you need to support the lower control arm in such a way that it doesnt move. If it stays on the rubber or leave it disconnected then the hits will be absorved by the rubber or the motion your are making. A sledge hammer does the job.
Btw. Those brakes were def worth it.

 

i knew they would be

 

i envy you. im still stuck in the life of house parties and drinking in the woods.