RangerDanger
Active Member
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2007
- Messages
- 39
- Age
- 42
- Vehicle Year
- 1992
- Transmission
- Manual
Hey, I have had my ranger for years and years and its time to do my front ball joints. they have been loose for years and i worry that they will fail eventually.
Anyways its pretty straitforward right?
take the brake rotors/bearings off, then the spindle bolts, then hammer off the spindle... remove tie rod end from knuckle, remove the axle from the diff,... then undo the old rusted up pinch bolts and hammer the shit/use pickle fork to separate the knucle from the axle arm... then use a ball joint press to remove the old ball joints and install the new ones and re-assemble??
Is this pretty much all there is to it? oh and of course get a aligmment after putting it all back together...
Any special tools besides the ones i mentioned?
Anyways its pretty straitforward right?
take the brake rotors/bearings off, then the spindle bolts, then hammer off the spindle... remove tie rod end from knuckle, remove the axle from the diff,... then undo the old rusted up pinch bolts and hammer the shit/use pickle fork to separate the knucle from the axle arm... then use a ball joint press to remove the old ball joints and install the new ones and re-assemble??
Is this pretty much all there is to it? oh and of course get a aligmment after putting it all back together...
Any special tools besides the ones i mentioned?