Ball Joint Removal.wmv 

Thanks Keith!!! You learn twice as much doing it the wrong way.....maybe three times as much if you do it wrong again! LOL :) I wouldn't have as much to share if I didn't share my mistakes :) Thanks for watching!!! Mike

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Thanks. Good info. This was a good example of how not to do it....not sure why it gets so many views. lol

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Thanks! :)

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+Ric Tester Thank you so much Ric!! I always try to check out the channels of those that comment. I just watched a couple of your vids.....WOW!! Your cover of Little Darlin' from about 5 years ago......very impressive!!! Love your voice! :) Mike

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+eddie freddy You're more than welcome. :)

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Without seeing it, there's no way for me to know......even then, I'm not a professional mechanic with tons of experience on different vehicles. You'd be better off taking it to one so they could look at it directly.

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Thanks!

+eddie freddy I completely killed that arm before I figured it out! Doh!! Glad it helped! :)

No need to remove the arm. You should be able to use the removal tool with it still attached. For what I'm doing with the arms......they're already off the vehicle.

bluehandsvideo ok thank you.

+Mark Joshua Quevedo Thanks!!

Yes, you can change out the ball joint and reuse the arm. My interest in the arm was to modify it to use on an old Datsun pickup.

But, Hyundai dealer claimed that the arm comes in set. So, it sounds we can not buy either bushings, ball joints, rubber boot etc separately. In short, regardless of other parts good or bad, I have to change the whole control arm!!!! How true is this?

I thought you were asking about these arms. I have no clue about Hyundai arms. You might check rockauto.com and see if the parts are available separately.

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You're more than welcome! Thanks!

Thanks! :) I have my moments. lol

There's pro's and con's to both. I could have gotten these arms with bolt in....just an earlier year of the same vehicle, but the bolt in style take up a lot of room. I did a more recent version of this vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jzsak1V_7Ew.html I cut these arms up and modify them to fit on an older Datsun truck. Having the bolt in ball joints would have made it nearly impossible to do. If you're curious, you can search "GB" on this channel or check out my IG under the same name.

I'm shut down, so I doubt I'll be doing it again. :(

You're welcome.

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lol. You're more than welcome. Sometime I think that if I didn't include my mistakes, I'd have nothing to post. That guy in the mirror is always the hardest one to deal with. :) Mike

Thank you. :)

The rubber in the bushing is probably absorbing most of your impact. You can try a bigger hammer. The bolts are still available new. A bit more drastic option is to cut the bolt. run down between the inside of the arm and the frame on both sides. It will damage the end of the bushing and you'll have to replace it too....which is another royal pain.

Thanks very much I will try that.

Hopefully, it won't be too bad getting the bushing out, but here's what I ended up doing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V3NEiH3R7e0.html

I'm sure you're right. I don't have the vehicle. I modify these arms to convert older kingpin suspensions to ball joints.

?? Did I say that in the vid? Or that's just how you're saying thanks? Kind of ironic......I put thanks for watching at the end of every vid.....so either this one is from before I started doing that or I forgot to. Oh well. :) Thanks!! Mike

richardcloudbase hyuhh

Yes, there's a handful of different styles. The older Datsun/Nissans had bolt on ball joints. Other manufacturers had different sizes and shapes as well.

...I would have probably edited out the cursing. lol

Ummm...Ahhhh...Sooo....Now.....If I take them all out, I wouldn't have any audio. LOL I spend a lot of time trying to edit those out these days.....it's part of why I hate editing video and really don't post many anymore. I've probably got close to 30 or 40 hours of raw video in the editor right now waiting......from up to a year ago. Maybe I should start scripting them. lol Thanks. :)

@@bluehandsvideo good video bud. I’m just kidding

@@sidewayskiwikick2899 I kinda figured.....but it's not near good enough to warrant the number of views it's gotten! LOL I feel like I should put an apology in the title bar. LOL :) Thanks!!! -Mike

Yep

The one that looks like a big C clamp? Never used one. Did you see the piece of tube I cut to hold the arm underneath while I pressed it. Something like that might help if you're trying to hammer it out. If it's a stamped sheet metal arm like mine, you might try heating the arm flange up with a propane torch....then cool the ball joint piece down with some air or a can of dust off held upside down. Just be careful. I'm not sure what will happen if that ball joint piece is really hot and you try to instantly cool it. Water might work, but I'm sure the steam could easily burn you.

+bluehandsvideo I have a torch at home, but I think the company pressure forged the ball joint, it's not a pressable joint is what I'm thinking so I have to buy the whole arm. I'm going to hammer it out as a last resort.

What year/make/model is the vehicle you're working on?

+bluehandsvideo Ford Mustang 2010

I looked it up on rockauto.com....great place for reference.....the ball joint is serrated, but it should press out of the arm with that C-clamp like tool. There's a vid or two specific to your joint and arm on YT.....have you seen them? With the removal tool, you should have a larger tube underneath the arm that will just fit over the ball joint. On the top, use the tube that fits on the shoulder of the ball joint, right by the dust boot. Might be easier if you take the dust boot off. Even if you pressed on the shaft and pushed the ball out the bottom, the tubes should still work to get the body of the joint out.

yep....probably would have cracked my glasses

Thanks. :)

Nearly all of my stuff is just simply sharing what I'm doing in the shop and not meant to be for educational purposes. This is more of a "learn from my mistakes" video. lol So, that would be one more mistake. Typically, external circlips are designed to be remove with snap ring pliers. If you look at the :38 second mark, you'll see that is it literally just a wire ring. There are versions of this application that do use true circlips.

@@bluehandsvideo I'm not suggesting you are an educator, the whole world can see you aren't that. You've taken the time to film what you do, and someone will copy you. So if you do it correctly, they at least will have a chance to. All youtube videos are educational in that way. What you are doing is good, it could just be better.

@@craigfishcake2543 Yep

If I were only doing one or two at a time, I would. The batch I'm working on now is 30 arms. I've gotten a lot better at it. lol I show it in this newer video..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jzsak1V_7Ew.html

I tend to learn more often then others!! LOL :) Thanks!!

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I'm not sure we're much better. This vid was done while preparing parts for a ball joint modification on an older truck with kingpins. I bought 10 new arms with ball joints already in them. That was the easiest, cheapest way to get them. lol But, we can but just the joint locally if I wanted to use the old arms. I'm modifying the arm, so I didn't want to go pull used arms from the scrapyard.......lazy!! :) Thanks! I'm glad you liked the vid! :) Mike

You'll have to be a bit more specific than that. Exactly how will they? I'd be happy to post a link to your video showing how to do it.

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It's a good example of how NOT to do it. I have no clue why it gets so many views.

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