Ball Joints....
Ok well started working on lifting the front of the truck today and everything was going great, got sway bar disconnected, calipers off, rotors, upper ball joint then I hit a brick wall I got to the lower ball joint and shit went sour..I sat their and hit on this damn thing with a 10lb sledge for 30min with no avail didnt even budge so I get pissed and take out the pickle fork and you guessed it tore the boot up like none other. Now the real kicker is that that still didnt get the ball joint out so now I just give up since its 10pm and I throw it all back together and im in a bind. I am out 6 hours of time, and now money for a new ball joint. Did you guys have troubles like this and how the hell did you get that thing out. Also how much is a new lower ball joint the thing looks like it is riveted to the lower control arm and I am thinking its gonna be $$$$.
Ok well started working on lifting the front of the truck today and everything was going great, got sway bar disconnected, calipers off, rotors, upper ball joint then I hit a brick wall I got to the lower ball joint and shit went sour..I sat their and hit on this damn thing with a 10lb sledge for 30min with no avail didnt even budge so I get pissed and take out the pickle fork and you guessed it tore the boot up like none other. Now the real kicker is that that still didnt get the ball joint out so now I just give up since its 10pm and I throw it all back together and im in a bind. I am out 6 hours of time, and now money for a new ball joint. Did you guys have troubles like this and how the hell did you get that thing out. Also how much is a new lower ball joint the thing looks like it is riveted to the lower control arm and I am thinking its gonna be $$$$.