<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f9e49d6f-4b35-4db5-8717-47707edbe81d/F526D9BA-F33F-456F-B554-5665BEEC2F8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f178/ball-joint-replacement-tricks-414810/#post6510004" href="http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f178/ball-joint-replacement-tricks-414810/#post6510004" style="font-size: 11px;">www.s10forum.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f178/ball-joint-replacement-tricks-414810/#post6510004"><DIV class="smallfont"><STRONG>Re: Ball joint replacement tricks?</STRONG> </DIV> <DIV id="post_message_6510004">1. jack it up and put the truck on a jack stand 2. pull off the wheel 3. take the caliper and rotor off, and hang the caliper out of the way 4. use an impact, or whatever means you need to use to take off the axle nut, fyi, its 36mm 5. support the lower control arm with a jack, and lift a small amount on the lower control arm 6. break loose the nuts on the upper and lower balljoints, anduse a pickle fork with a bfh to break them loose of the steering knuckle 7. remove the tierod, from the knuckle by hitting the tapered part of the knuckle with a hammer, usually one or two good hits and it will pop loose 8. tap the axle out of the knuckle with a mallet or a punch/ hammer..DO NOT hit the axle directly with a hammer..<BR /><DIV> 9. your ball joints could be bolted in, or the stock rivets could be there, so what you need to do to get them out, and re assemble</DIV> <BR /><DIV> it took me about 2.5 hours of working, but i had to get a 3/4 inch impact from my dads work.</DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F526D9BA-F33F-456F-B554-5665BEEC2F8E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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