Went to school this weekend! balljoints 101

[mr.wilson]

I have never replaced balljoints before and hope I never have to again. Luckily for me my father-in-law is always willing to help. We started around 10am saturday morning by disassembling the brakes and swaybar, then moving on to spreading the joints from the spindle. After that was complete, the rest of the day(until 7pm) was spent removing the balljoints from the control arms without airtools. These were the original units(my dad never replaced them). Sunday morning we get up, install the new springs, balljoints, shocks and swaybar bushings, greased her up and went for a ride. WOW!!!!!!!! What a difference it makes to have new suspension on an old truck.

P.S. Anyone have any airtools and a compressor in the DFW arear for the next big project I tackle!!! lol