Balljoints
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Balljoints
I spent way too many hours doing the balljoints on one side of my truck, and now that they're in, I'm pretty sure I (word not suitable for family viewing) 'em up.
Haynes manual doesn't say anything about 'em. Chiltons quotes the shop manual verbatim, and the shop-manual uses Ford part numbers -- FOR TOOLS. Call a socket a socket, not a 1G3H262-D-2-H, or whatever.
Does anyone have a plain English with common tool nomenclature explanation of removing and installing balljoints? I have a thread and a half showing on the bottom joint, and the top joint spins inside the castle-nut, I know it's going to wear the cotter-key and spin off eventually.
What the heck is the "adjusting collar"; how is it adjusted, and what is it adjusted to? I know it's the threaded insert inside the upper joint sleeve. What's it for? Where can I get the proper tool for it?
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'79 4WD Dana 44.
Haynes manual doesn't say anything about 'em. Chiltons quotes the shop manual verbatim, and the shop-manual uses Ford part numbers -- FOR TOOLS. Call a socket a socket, not a 1G3H262-D-2-H, or whatever.
Does anyone have a plain English with common tool nomenclature explanation of removing and installing balljoints? I have a thread and a half showing on the bottom joint, and the top joint spins inside the castle-nut, I know it's going to wear the cotter-key and spin off eventually.
What the heck is the "adjusting collar"; how is it adjusted, and what is it adjusted to? I know it's the threaded insert inside the upper joint sleeve. What's it for? Where can I get the proper tool for it?
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'79 4WD Dana 44.
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The adjusting collar allows a person to adjust the toe-in on each wheel
One end is threaded correctly the other end is a left-hand thread so if you turn the collar one way it adjusts the front of the wheel in.. turn it the other way ...the front of the wheel turns out.
I assume you don;t have what they call a pickle fork for removing them?
do a measurement from center of ball joint where castelated nut is to the other end same thing or mark the threads where the adj. collar ends with a hacksaw blade and move that measurement over to the new ones for reassembly.
steering specs.
http://www.autozone.com/az/cds/en_us...rInfoPages.htm
One end is threaded correctly the other end is a left-hand thread so if you turn the collar one way it adjusts the front of the wheel in.. turn it the other way ...the front of the wheel turns out.
I assume you don;t have what they call a pickle fork for removing them?
do a measurement from center of ball joint where castelated nut is to the other end same thing or mark the threads where the adj. collar ends with a hacksaw blade and move that measurement over to the new ones for reassembly.
steering specs.
http://www.autozone.com/az/cds/en_us...rInfoPages.htm
Last edited by Mil1ion; Apr 9, 2007 at 10:02 PM.
