When removing ball joints, do you really need to use a ball joint remover (c clamp style or fork style)? Seems I can just bang on the bolt from the bottom and get it popped off with one swing of the hammer.

How about putting it back on? A special tool really needed?

 

removing the ball joint and seperating them are 2 seprate things? are you seperating it from something? a-arm? steering?

hitting them with a hammer will damage the threads if you plan on reusing them get a fork to seperate them. to reinstall it nothing is needed. just tighten the bolt

 

i'm putting in spc rear camber kit. by hitting with hammer, i was going to losen nut so that its flush with bolt then hit that. it should not damage threads. just not sure if it will ruin the ball joint. i forgot to run out and get a fork and planned on doing this tonight.

 

Umm, there is no ball joint in the rear.

 

DIY by Austin519

Here what i follow when i did my SPC camber installed last weekend.
Good luck Man

 

Ummm, Yes there is. Its even pictured in the DYI link that "AznWayTL's" posted.

If you don't completely know what your talking about, its best to just not say anything. Not trying to be rude, but it ends up confusing ppl.

 

Thanks for the advice, but I did everything in my signature myself. I know what I'm talking about.

You said you're doing the rear camber kit. You have no ball joint to deal with in the rear camber kit; just the front.



EDIT -- I see what you mean now. I thought you meant taking the ball joint out of the rear camber kit. I was saying that you don't have to take it out because the camber kit replaces the entire arm assembly. But now I understand what you meant.

 

Ok, that sounded confusing still. Let me try again.

When I read your thread title "removing ball joint" then read that you were doing the rear camber kit, I thought that you were trying to take the ball joint assembly out of the factory arm to replace with a camber kit. This didn't make sense to me, because the camber kit replaces the entire arm with a new ball joint, so you don't have to take it out of the arm.

But I understand now that you were talking about taking the ball joint out of its slot, not out of the arm assembly. Sorry about that.

 

Anyway... to get it out of the slot, you don't use a ball joint remover. That's to take it out of the arm assembly. For example, in the front, you have to use the remover kit to take it out of the upper arm.

But for the rear, you just hammer it out of its slot.

That's another thing that confused me, because you were talking about the remover kit, and you only use that to get the ball joint out of the arm assembly, not out of its spot.

Alright, so who else is confused?

 

lol Pure Adrenaline teh

 

Shut up, H.


But yeah, I did kind of own myself there. But I was confused!

 

dont ya just hate it when that happens!

 

I do. I feel like a jackass.