[DeTomaso] Rear upper ball joints

[mark skwarek]

There is a small boss on the upright that you hit with a hammer after you have expanded the "thingy" a bit and the ball joint pops free.
Mark

--- On Thu, 5/13/10, pantdino at aol.com <pantdino at aol.com> wrote:


From: pantdino at aol.com <pantdino at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Rear upper ball joints
To: boyd411 at gmail.com, ncpantera at bellsouth.net
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 11:11 PM



If you search the archives on this topic you will find some posts that describe a "dealy" or "thingy" that can be used for this.

IIRC it is basically a coupling nut you buy at Home Depot for about 49 cents and you put a bolt in each end. As you turn it it expands. I used it to easily remove the ball joints on my car without damaging anything.

Jim Oddie








-----Original Message-----
From: boyd casey <boyd411 at gmail.com>
To: Nick Kuharcik <ncpantera at bellsouth.net>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 7:59 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Rear upper ball joints


I just did it on all four wheels. I used a standard ball joint tool which is
ike a wedge shaped fork.you just place it under the ball joint and whack it
ith a small sledge hammer. The ball joints are mounted on tapered shafts
nd they pop off when you drive the wedge between them and the a-arm.
oyd
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Nick Kuharcik <ncpantera at bellsouth.net>wrote:
> Any tricks to removing the ball joints without damage to the upper arms?

NICK
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