lower ball joint install trouble

Tater17 · 2007-02-14 00:06:22

orezona, what is your secret?? can you tell.....:-missingt john, what happened???? that sucks!!

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Feb 14, 2007 | 07:06 PM

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sean23johnson

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orezona, what is your secret?? can you tell.....

john, what happened???? that sucks!!

Feb 14, 2007 | 07:08 PM

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John311t

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When i first got the truck, the upper Ball joints were bad, so i replaced them. It had 4.56 gears in it when i bought it, the guy i bought it from did not have the gears set up right and it blew the rear gears. Well i got the rear end re-done for free since a buddy of mine had brand new ford 3.73 gears laying around. After that was set up i need 3.73 for the front. When my trans went out, i was talking to the guy who did it and he had an axle with 3.73's in it and said he would switch the axles for free with me, if my wheel bearings where good. Well i went to take apart my wheel bearing and sure enough, the needle bearing was bad on one side and ate the shaft . So i showed him what happened and i ended up payin $300 for the entire axle with brakes and two good wheel bearings! So i put that one on and no problems except it had the stock ball joints on it. I have now switched from making my truck have more power, to having a nice truck with nothing wrong with it. The ball joints are going to go bad, so im gonna switch them to the moog greeseables before they go out sense all the steering components are moog. I just want to know that everything is good.

Feb 14, 2007 | 07:49 PM

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Orezona

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sean23johnson

orezona, what is your secret?? can you tell.....

john, what happened???? that sucks!!

Man, I read through this thread and was worried it looked like that. Sorry man. I was going to put my idea on in a little bit.

All I did was cut a groove in a c-clamp, cut off an allen-wrench, lay the piece of allen-wrench in the groove of the ball-joint and line up the groove in the c-clamp. That dang lower ball-joint almost had me kicked,

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2529...94070327lQbobk
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2175...94070327wipzjU

Hopes this help. And again, I didn't mean to make it look like a secret. It was mostly I felt weird explaing my idea.

Feb 14, 2007 | 08:10 PM

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sean23johnson

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Orezona, great idea! i like to see things like that in case i get in a jam one day. i was looking at your pics, what happened?? did the knuckle come off but the balljoint stayed???

Feb 14, 2007 | 08:28 PM

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Orezona

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Yep, it the joint stayed. I ended up having to beat it out with a small sledge after heating with a bottle torch.

Feb 14, 2007 | 09:46 PM

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This is perfect timing.
I just bought the tools to do my ball joints and that C-clamp idea is great.

Feb 14, 2007 | 10:07 PM

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Orezona

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Kwikkordead

This is perfect timing.
I just bought the tools to do my ball joints and that C-clamp idea is great.

Well, from a nearly 10k post moderator, thank you. Hopefully it works. That little idea only came after I actually got the guts to tackle this job because of the FTE'rs before me that started this https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/3...ll-joints.html

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