I took my 123 BJs to a shop to change, that is how the old mech did it.
Put the knuckle in a vise, put a ball peen round end on the bottom of
the BJ then whacked it coupla times with a BFH. Then used the MB press
to slide them in. One of them the collar broke, was some off brand Rusty
sent me, sent them back for Lemforders and it went right in. Same deal
on a 126 I did.
--FT
On 11/3/19 9:39 AM, MG via Mercedes wrote:
They must be in there a lot tighter then in the 123. I knocked the
ball joints out of mine with two hammers very easily. Put the ball of
one hammer on the bottom of the ball joint and then hit the flat head
of that hammer with a bigger one. The round ball end supposedly
collapses the outside of joint and causes it to pull away from the
socket it sits in and the whole thing pops right out with a few good
hefty whacks.
I watched the tech do that with a set of ball joints on another 123 so
I knew it worked for them.
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