Replacing ball-joints and press-fit bearings/bushes without using a press 

LOL. Hand tools to remove suspension parts? No need for a torch? No broken bolts? No holes rusted through the control arm? Not even a single curse word uttered? New Zealand must be on another planet!

Little tip: When you tighten the bolts on the new bushings to the subframe, jack up the strut so the spring is compressed. If you tighten them before, the bushings will twist under load and wear prematurely ;-)

Necessity is the mother of invention. Well done removing/installing without muss or fuss. We appreciate the methodology behind the work. Thanks for sharing.

From the stoic, dry, Marty, a comedy end. Didn't think you had it in you. Thanks!

Another fine episode of post apocalypse auto repair from Marty T.

Nice job Marty, about 45 years ago I replaced most of the steering/front suspension ball joints, control arm bushings, Ect on a 1964 Pontiac Lemans. No special tools, only several misc pipe diameters, 1” all thread with nuts and washers and steel plates (red neck coil spring compressor) a oxy/act torch and a carefully directed ball peen hammer. Was working on a budget Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍😎😎😎 Cary

"If I hadn't cooled and heated that, I would've been here for ages". I watched this video two weeks too late! Took over 4 hours and was cut out in the end... Will not forget this trick. Thanks Marty!

Looks like Marty took the ham out of the freezer, too! Thanks for making the great videos!

Haha..good on the respirator ending. What a crazy time we live in.

Loved the Corona virus reference...I always enjoy your videos, keep them coming.

Clearly there isn't road salt in NZ, love the mask at the end, totally wasn't expecting that.

No room in my freezer... it’s too full of toilet paper. 😂

Funny Marty!!! Love watching your shade-tree work! Thank you so much for sharing!!! :-))

When you put it back together you put the steering wheel on the wrong side!

Good old swing press, helped me out a few times 🖒

It is amazing how an unseen or overlooked locking ring can make removal impossible. I've seen a control arm in a press crack while trying to remove a ball joint with the ring still on. Great video.

Aloha, After 80 years on this this old ball, I have problems arguing with success. I love my press, but I have been there and done that when I was working for a commercial shop.

Thank you for posting these videos. As a young man i'm learning a lot from watching you working!

Great video, very instructive! Here in Southern California, they don't care about the state of the suspension or brakes, only the engine emissions. Your wheel can fall off and you can crash into a tree, provided that you don't choke the onlookers. The tree owner will then sue you for not maintaining you vehicle.

Hi Marty you we're reading my mind also have a peace of train track .make a huge difference when the spring is gone . Thanks for sharing 👍have a great one 🇨🇦 Craig. Now on to your next video 😀

Keep em comin. Great entertainment for when our wee country goes into lockdown. Stay safe!

Loved the "wrong way Corrigan" move at the end Marty. Watching the video brought me back to the time I was helping a friend attempt to remove the flywheel off of a 150 hp Mercury outboard motor. After failing with the wheel puller he put the oxy/acetylene torch on it. The flywheel came off with a resounding "PING" and jumped eight feet in the air, removal would have been easier if we had removed the taper pin first. Great video, thumbs up.

What a great idea freezing the bushings. Would never have thought of it! Thanks for the tip! Well done!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Nice work! In the past I have cut the bush out, then ran a bead with the stick welder on the metal part. Quickly cool with a wet rag and it falls out of the control arm. Great vid, really love the shade tree work you do.

I always enjoy watching your videos Marty, you’re one awesome mechanic my friend!

Haha my favourite video so far, love the ending!

Said: "Can't be too careful this days"... and had reverse gear in instead of forward! ;-) :-) LOL Careful? By the way: Don't hammer on your (big) nuts without protecting them! :-) ;-) Best regards, luck, health and wisdom.

Have to balance cost vs aggravation too - especially when you live somewhere where the roads are salted in the winter like I do. I had to do the same job to my car and bushings/balljoint vs complete new loaded control arm was $92 vs $165. Was ten minutes opposed to possibly hours wrestling with rusted/seized bushings/balljoint.

Best video I’ve seen yet

Lol love it, I thought those things were impossible by hand, trust you to make it look easy:) I feel a new sense of calm when I next tackle a car problem..

Great job removing and installing the bushings!

That is the best way to do it. I cringe at amateurs using hydraulic presses and applies pressure wherever they can and distorting the ball run. OR even dumber, doing the pressure point correctly, but just beating the living shit out of it to make it fit because they don't think temperature matters when you have Bars

Good job Marty. As resourceful as you are, I believe you could build yourself a press with a old bottle jack and some scrap steel.

Nicely done Marty!

Here in Texas, if I left those parts in the freezer very long, one of my buddies would BBQ it for sure! :-)

Oh man , the respirator at the end 🤣😄😃👍👍🇺🇸

Brilliant content, excellent chat.

I've seen some heating up the parts with a propane torch....but they always end up setting the grease or the old rubber on fire. No doubt the heat gun is safer.

Ive done this many times an everytime i do it a different way lop makes it interesting. Great vid.

Sometimes when you price up the individual bushes and ball joints it's cheaper to just buy a complete new arm which saves lots of time and hassle?

A bottle jack under the D2 should be ball the press you would need for this job.

love the ingenuity.

Thanks for this video. Dealing with a similar control arm and can't get the bushings out. will try this.

One of the best,on you tube,all the best Lyn.

Thank you Marty, this really helped me to do the job. good luck :)

Your next project, a press. Like the bit a the end.

Another great video Marty.

Been there and done it...press is a blessing lol..x

That gave me a chuckle at the end marty thanks

Great job ! and has always I liked, shared. All my best.

Thanks 👍

Lovely, Nice video marty.

That you made look. Real easy. That steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car. Lol.

I changed the rear suspension bushings last weekend, totally forgot I have a heat gun, I teared out the center and sawed the outer collar. I'll try this with the front side.

You can have all the protection you want, but if you run out of toilet paper...

Great video

Love the Kiwi Ingenuity of using temp diff in lieu of a press - proper bush mechanics.

Great sense of humor! Thanks

Well done very informative thanks

nice ending... hahahaha

made that look easy! i have a harder time using the tools that are made for this job!

ROTFL! The $100 full face respirators were about all that were left in Bunnings today. Then I went to Pac & Save and queued up behind a Pacifica woman at the checkout who had four giant packs of toilet rolls. That was 48 rolls of toilet paper for fecks sake. There was also no Paracetamol on the shelves. For non NZ subscribers, NZ has just introduced a compulsory 14 day self isolation for _everyone_ entering the country. That will effectively kill out tourist industry, but at least we won't need to worry about RVs coming round the bend on the wrong side of the road. BTW Years ago we had a line stopping event over rubber bushes. This was the MK3 Cortina that had front and rear sub-frames. It was possible for the front sub-frame to be all the forward, and the rear to be all the way back, and the prop shaft to pop out of the back of the gearbox! It was a 24/7 all the overtime you wanted for us at Dunton (Ford Product Development), which some people loved. The fix was voided bushes that were mounted with the solid bit front and rear, and the voids top and bottom. So simple you wonder why it was not that way from the beginning.

Great video, stay safe!

Torque all suspension bolts only when under load, like weight of car, never in the air. Nicely done with hammer. I have to try it myself.

I was hoping for something unexpected. But this is all the better because its the simple right way, in my profession we tend to freeze parts and heat the recieving parts even when we use the press.

Nice video ❤ thanks

Good technique on the steering arm and the mask, mate!

Great tip!! Thanks boss!

Marty T and Adrew Camarata should do a collaboration Both are geniuses in their own way

Like the new designer wear look!

Marty get yourself a damn workbench! My knees hurt just watching!

..great info. good job on a d.i.y. project...have a good weekend..

When you are town I bet you can find a hydraulic press for cheap that you can rebuild! Always enjoyable videos.

Nice job!!!

Leaning everyday cheers marty

👍❤️ Nice tutorial

You can also pull them out and in using a threaded rod and some suitable bushings on either side. The advantage is you can do that without even fully removing the arms from the car if you want.

Thank you for the fun!! :-)

Marty, that full-face mask of yours is probably the only type that would do any good!

I wonder what that bit at the end was referencing to? Hmm..

used a vice and sockets until i got my press

Yeah, i think il'l do it your way, cheap an no special tools required. Thanks for the vid!

See a new Marty T vid in my feed, smile and hit like!

I like using a 2 inch hole saw on them when they’re frozen. it leaves the outer steel sleeve in there, but it comes out easily with a chisel. Maryland/pennsylvania roads get a lot of salt.

lol cracker marty lol , love your vids, all the best from scotland

Circlips are directional fitment & have a side that faces outwards against they way they would be forced off. If you look closely, one side of the inner diameter of the circlip has a rounded edge & the opposite has a 90 degree sharp edge. eBay has G-clamp type balljoint presses that are good value.

My pt cruiser has the same lower control arm!!

Should mention wrapping up the object in plastic to keep the flavour in when it goes in the Freezer?

Need 3.5” cup to press bushing out on a Ford Escape. Loosen control arm frame bolts to help with ball joint and once loose have someone turn steering wheel a little bit and it will fall right out with a crowbar through the control arm hole and medium pressure. Best of luck my press cup from advance bushing kit was 1/4” to small to press out my vertical bushing. I hear exhaust pipe can work, I didn’t have any that large.

I knew he was getting serious when he started using two hands on the maul.

Thank you :)

Any country with salted road, “laughs in pain”

A good vice works as a press in times of need

Beauti ! Love it ...

Ice or dry ice works well in that application also.

Nice work! xD

Great Vid I have exactly this problem so u do not need to take the front Bumper etc off to swap that bushing out cool! I thought u did☺

lol marty, good stuff!

nice one

The ending 😂🤣