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Jul 15, 2010 | 05:49 PM

icantdo55

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Another ball joint thread

1995 F250 manual locking hubs 5.8L 4x4 (dana 50 I think)

Got passenger side apart and upper ball joint is loose but lower is still stuck in there. Where can I beat it? I have beat it like crazy on the upper nut and the side of the lower and it wont budge, help.

Jul 15, 2010 | 07:07 PM

ac700wildcat

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When I did mine the only way i got them out was by pounding a pickle fork between the knuckle and the lower ball joint. Even with the pickle fork it took quite a few hits.

Jul 16, 2010 | 11:22 AM

icantdo55

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So I followed the advice of some on the board after some searching and flipped the castle nut over put it back on and hammered it....now the castle nut can work as a washer it no longer had threads.

Jul 16, 2010 | 11:38 AM

andym

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Did you remove the nut from the lower balljoint? There's no way you beat on the castle nut so hard that you stripped the threads out of it.

Jul 16, 2010 | 11:51 AM

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Mine really came apart hard. I beat the crap out of it. Pickle fork. Torch and even cut it flush with a high speed cutting wheel, then drilled a hole most of the way through it. Then it finally came with the pickle fork. What a pain. It's a MN truck and everything is rusted on it.

Jul 16, 2010 | 12:08 PM

andym

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Isn't it spelled Minnesota?

Jul 16, 2010 | 12:10 PM

icantdo55

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Quote:

Originally Posted by andym

Did you remove the nut from the lower balljoint? There's no way you beat on the castle nut so hard that you stripped the threads out of it.

Lower nut off. Yes you can, I'll post a picture later.

Got it off with a pickle fork on the lower and a 10lb 3ft sledge.

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Jul 17, 2010 | 12:05 AM

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Isn't it spelled Minnesota?

Thanks, I never noticed that for years. Must have had a few the night I wrote it. Glad he got the ball joint out. My neighbors cheered when mine finally came. I was beating on it for hours. Just like when I pulled down a tree with my truck but thats another story.