On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Henning, Eric wrote: > Having troubles searching the archives (seems only a week by week search > works) for the hints/cheats/recommendations for doing an upper ball joint > replacement on a 80 westy. Anybody have something written up? > > thanks > > eric.henning@bailey.com Eric -- I don't have anything written up, but I can tell you from experience that it's a pretty easy job. I followed the Bentley instructions, but it's been long enough since I did it that I can't remember much more than that. I don't know if one needs to undo the steering ball joint or remove the ball joint adapter with the ball joint attached, but I did since my goal was to replace as many of the ball joints as I could. In the process I twisted off one of the ball joint adapter bolts... uggh. I also recall using a hammer-impact screwdriver to remove the sheet metal disc shield. Also make sure you have the right tools for getting the damnable bolt off that holds on the caliper hose bracket.... that was a bit annoying. I got a nice little tool (not a pickle fork) to press out the tierod ball joint from Pep Boys, what a deal, they have a sort of free rental plan where you give 'em the purchase price, they hand over the tool, use it, bring it back in 30 days more or less intact and they give you your money back. Gary ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Shea shea@xmission.com Salt Lake City http://www.xmission.com/~shea |
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