Next time, get a MAP/Oxy torch, heat up those arms (around the ball joint) tell they just glow, and the ball joints pop right out like butter. I used that procedure on the last set of 124 ball joints, I actually used a big harbor freight clamp to push them in and out, made the whole job SOOO much easier. I think the hardest part was cutting off the threaded part of the old joint so that the clamp had a nice place to push on. Buddy with a machine shop made an adapter from a piece of pipe that fits the bottom of the arm so the joint gets pushed into that cavity inside the pipe.
I bought a MAP/oxy torch at tractor supply for about $50 several years ago, it is a great thing to have when you need it. The little tanks for oxygen are a little pricey, like $10 each for about 30 minutes of work, but Lowes keeps them in stock so I don't have to worry about re-supply. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 8:07 PM Jaime Kopchinski via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I also banged out the old ball joints from the spindles. The first one > came out with a few blows from a 4 lbs sledge... under a minute. The > second one took a few hours. I managed to get it to move a bit with the 4 > lbs sledge before breaking the handle. The hardware store didn't have any > handles, but they did have a 6 lbs sledge, so I bought that. Blow after > blow... plus heat from MAP gas... finally the thing popped out. I'm > already sore, tomorrow will be worse i suspect. > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
