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Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 4:25 pm
by Monk
I'm guessing but I got 2 moog sets (upper , lowers) from kijiji, about 3-4 years ago, and I always keep staring them down and figure I should put in this summer,

Is it easy to replace? Looks straight forward, but anything I should prep for before the job?

Like are the balljoint wedged in?

When my truck was Safied early this year they said was movement in the rear balljoint , not bad ,but will need replacing this year,..

Uggg so many little things gotta do

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 4:35 pm
by Monk
I did a search and found this page,

Looked semi straight forward


http://www.manualslib.com/manual/851833/Hummer-H1.html?page=541

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 7:47 pm
by ddgermann
I had mine done in the shop so it was easy!!! But one thing I was told is they were not factory and using them was a bad idea as one of my lowers pulled apart by hand it was so worn. The thing was allegedly greased "regularly" by the previous owner. May have been just bad prior maintenance but I went with all factory balljoints.

http://www.flashoffroad.com/Maintenance/FrontEnd/balljoints/balljoints_2.htm

This is very detailed Monk

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:14 pm
by Roy
It is a little tricky doing the lower, but should be safe replacement job.

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 5:21 pm
by GreenMeanie
I had problems doing my rear uppers on both sides. The joints would not come out.
I had to cut them out and put the whole hub on the bench before i could get them out.
Pickle fork did nothing, double hammer smacks did nothing.
What ended up working was a $50 heavy duty u jaw puller i bought as a last resort.
Still wasn't easy but they finally came out.

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:31 pm
by Monk
It's funny you showed me that picture, I ended up having to also cut my upper ball joint because it just kept on spinning and nothing I could do to make it on spin, so I cut it went to Canadian Tire and got a jaw puller and just tighten it down a bit and then I was able to take off the nut but the problem was though I could not get the ball joint to go up out after as I snagged in the hole to hard....hahaha

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:33 pm
by Monk
Now, for my secret....hehe

As I could not get that half a ball joint out of the hole I put an axe under it and tighten my jaw puller to that and it worked

The axe popped it up, was great

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:37 pm
by Monk
My Lower ball joints were a total mess I swear that thing was ready to fall out I could slap that thing up and down, spin it super easy after I got it out...bad lose

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:37 pm
by Monk
And don't worry I took that last picture before I snugged anything down I just got the bolt on and I figured I would take a picture

Re: Replacing ball upper/lower joints

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:39 pm
by Monk
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