Sicktight722
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- Aug 28, 2007
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- Location
- Columbia & Effingham SC
- Vehicle Year
- 1990
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 2.9L
- Transmission
- Manual
hey yall
I took my '89 ranger 4x4 to get an alignment and the shop said my ball joints, both upper and lower were wore extremely bad, half inch play. Anyways, they wanted to put in new ball joints and possibly new steering knuckles and caster bushings (could have said camber bushings) if they needed replacing, all to the tune of $800 for labor, and $107 for the ball joints. Didn't add in the prices of the other parts as he wasn't sure if they needed to be replaced. Well since I don't have $900 to spend, I'm going to do it myself and I'm only doing the ball joints for the time being. I'm ordering the parts on Rockauto.com and I'm going to get the ball joint service tool from harborfreight. I'll be following my haynes manual and the article in the tech library to help me.
some of my questions:
Do I need the 4wd tool, or will the 2wd work?
Will only doing the ball joints and maybe the bushing be okay?
What do I need to look for to judge the condition of the steering knuckle?
is there any tips that i need to know?
Thanks yall, I'm sure I'll have more questions later on in the week.
I took my '89 ranger 4x4 to get an alignment and the shop said my ball joints, both upper and lower were wore extremely bad, half inch play. Anyways, they wanted to put in new ball joints and possibly new steering knuckles and caster bushings (could have said camber bushings) if they needed replacing, all to the tune of $800 for labor, and $107 for the ball joints. Didn't add in the prices of the other parts as he wasn't sure if they needed to be replaced. Well since I don't have $900 to spend, I'm going to do it myself and I'm only doing the ball joints for the time being. I'm ordering the parts on Rockauto.com and I'm going to get the ball joint service tool from harborfreight. I'll be following my haynes manual and the article in the tech library to help me.
some of my questions:
Do I need the 4wd tool, or will the 2wd work?
Will only doing the ball joints and maybe the bushing be okay?
What do I need to look for to judge the condition of the steering knuckle?
is there any tips that i need to know?
Thanks yall, I'm sure I'll have more questions later on in the week.