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Old Oct 1, 2011 | 07:45 PM
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I spent my Saturday working on ball joints on my wifes 90 Areostar. Cut the rivits off the upper ball joint and did not get it off yet. Those rivits are hard to work on!!
 
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Old Oct 1, 2011 | 10:05 PM
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Best thing for them is an air chisel. Then use it for pushing the thing out.



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Old Oct 1, 2011 | 10:13 PM
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Thanks, I will see if I can get my Air chisel going on it tomorrow.
 
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Old Oct 2, 2011 | 11:22 AM
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I landed up drilling them out carefully (don't want to cut into the control arm), starting with an 1/8" HSS bit and working my way up to 9/32" or so.

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That is what it took, drilled them out with a 1/4" and used a air chisel and the top one popped right off.

Thanks, Allen
 
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Old Oct 4, 2011 | 05:15 AM
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It has been a long time since I did mine. Here is a link to a document on how to do it with pictures.
 
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