How much $ for ball joints?
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How much $ for ball joints?
I took my truck down for an alighment today, and they said my all my ball joints were shot! $750-$850 to get them replaced!!! It's a good shop, but that seems like a ton of $. What have others paid? Thanks.
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I got a quote from my mechanic for a set of ball joints at about the same price as yours $700-800, i bought the tools, plus a couple extra ones, spent a day changeing them out, then got an alingment, and was still 1/3 under what they wanted for doing them, plus i got some new tools to play with, just a thought if ya like working on your own truck
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I had $250 into just the Precision greasable ball joints. Plus $50 for axle seals and $10 for the hub rings.
I paid two friends $375 to do the ball joints, u-joints, rotors, callipers and lock out replacement. For the parts alone it was over $1,000. The whole job took both guys 13 hours with me watching and handing tools. Both have wrenched before a lot, they both put the tranny in my truck two years ago as well.
The truck had 150K at time of work and now has 172K and all seems well, besides already replacing brakes!
I paid two friends $375 to do the ball joints, u-joints, rotors, callipers and lock out replacement. For the parts alone it was over $1,000. The whole job took both guys 13 hours with me watching and handing tools. Both have wrenched before a lot, they both put the tranny in my truck two years ago as well.
The truck had 150K at time of work and now has 172K and all seems well, besides already replacing brakes!
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Originally Posted by rscritch
I got a quote from my mechanic for a set of ball joints at about the same price as yours $700-800, i bought the tools, plus a couple extra ones, spent a day changeing them out, then got an alingment, and was still 1/3 under what they wanted for doing them, plus i got some new tools to play with, just a thought if ya like working on your own truck
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its all in the knowledge and the tools.
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If you have an Autozone in your area they rent the tools for free. I bought all my parts at either Ford or Napa and they rented them to me for $0!!!
For some reason the driver side was really a pain to get the parts off. I called a guy who runs a mechanic shop and he said the driver side is always the hardest, could be due to the salt being laid on the center line so more salt gets into that side and bonds it better. The mechanic also said the book called for 13 hours total.
A guy I know changed the ball joints on a early 99 F250 4x4, he claimed it took him a couple hours to do both sides. He's wrenched on Ford trucks for 25+ years and is very good. I should have brought the truck there it could have been cheaper!
For some reason the driver side was really a pain to get the parts off. I called a guy who runs a mechanic shop and he said the driver side is always the hardest, could be due to the salt being laid on the center line so more salt gets into that side and bonds it better. The mechanic also said the book called for 13 hours total.
A guy I know changed the ball joints on a early 99 F250 4x4, he claimed it took him a couple hours to do both sides. He's wrenched on Ford trucks for 25+ years and is very good. I should have brought the truck there it could have been cheaper!
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Oh come on I can take one side apart in 30 minutes. If you have the tools its easy esp if you did it B4. I'm sure the book doesn't say 13 hours to do ball joints..I would bet I could change one side in under and hour and 15 minutes if I were in a race..Having all the tools laid out of course..and you need a good impact gun and compressor.. 
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