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It's easy to do, the big thing is to make sure the vehicle can't move one inch!
Handbrake firmly applied, low range first gear, wheels chocked and if you've got them put chassis stands under the chassis rails. Why? Because when you remove the ball joint there is nothing to stop the diff assy rotating and dropping the whole car on top of you.
First, remove the split pin through the castle nut on the bottom of the ball joint ( you can see this looking up from behind the diff )
Second, release tension on the castle nut but don't completely remove.
Third, Undo and remove the two bolts that go through the ball joint carrier attaching it to the A frame.
You will then have two A frame arms seperated from the ball joint carrier. They won't fall and hit you on the head.
Then remove the castle nut and lift the ball joint out, this may require a tap or two from a hammer on the bottom of the ball joint thread.
The method I use to extract the old ball joint from the carrier is to invert the assy in a vice then using a hacksaw, not an angle grinder, you don't want to accidentally cut into the carrier that you have to re-use. Cut the wings off the old ball joint so the carrier can be rested in a press and the ball joint pushed out. I take this and the new ball joint to my mechanic and he does the pressing.
Then just bolt it back in and away you go.
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Hi Rosco,
By LRA I mean Les Richmond Automotive in case you didn't know. Thomastown, Melby.
DL
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Blknight.aus you are the cause of all this!!.I went around all the bolts and re-torqued them,the drivers side lower link bolt was finger tight???,and that just moved the load to the ball joint and sure enough checking your way there was movement.I will chase up the LRA one or I found a rose jointed model thats looks the goods but it's big $$$'s.I'm buying front cranked radius arms from the UK so I might get a BJ thrown in for a better price.The clutch release has been abit funny at times the last month so the slave might be on it's last legs,I don't mind that as it is the original from new but that would not be helping the driveline slap. Pat
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