John, I will loan you the Harbor Freight ball joint tool set that I used. I put the big c-clamp part of it in a vise and pressed the old ones out and new ones in in an hour or so, front and rear. Not a big deal. It comes with the collars and such that press the bushings out and back in. It takes some fiddling to get the right pieces strung together for a certain task but not too bad. Jim On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:42 PM Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > .... Can tthe lower ones be done > > first (by a shop) and the later the uppers done by me? > > > This is what I did. Upper ball joint R&R is easy to do. > Would suggest using a shop that will press the new > lower ball joints in. The shop that did mine basically pounded them in > using bits of pipe. > That worked, but I think the right way to do this is to use a press of > some kind. > > Neil. > > > > -- > Neil n > > Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca> > > 1988 Westy Images <https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/New1988Westy> > > 1981 Westfalia "Jaco" Images, technical <http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/> > > Vanagon-Bus VAG Gas Engine Swap Group <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay> > |
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