Upper Ball Joint Torque??

[ubtripn]

First off a HUGE shout out to Hot Trucks yesterday for personally calling me and walking me through the job. What tremendous act of kindness.

Anyway, do the top four bolts have a torque setting because you can move the ball stud around before tightening them so I am assuming torque is a big deal here and I forgot to ask.

[lolife99]

Usually your instructions (that came with your new balljoint) have a torque spec for that specific brand of ball joint.

[lolife99]

Also,... the castle nut torque for the upper ball joint stud is 50 ft. lbs.
90 ft. lbs. for the lower ball joint.

[Tx Firefighter]

If I remember right, they're 3/8 bolts so shoot for mid 30s ft/lb range.

The four ball joint mount bolts won't affect the ball stud moving around though.

[Hottrucks]

Told yea to call if you had any other ???'s

if your talking about the little bolts that hold the joint to the a arm make them tight.....lmao I have a torque wrench but tend to do things by feel.....

also I feel like an AssHat......I should have told you want an old wrench told me years ago..

" Put never seize on everything you work on you never know who the next jackass to work on is going to be.....it maybe you!!"


thank Lolife

[ubtripn]

I know, I just didn't want to bug ya again, you really saved my butt by walking me through it. Thanks again man, I could not have done it without you and thank you to the board.

(I remembered the anti-seize and even set the alignment like you said, worked beautifully.)