Ball Joint Stuck!

[John Wright]

Side note if pressing in the LCA bushing yourself....find a small piece of angle or something to help you keep from crushing the LCA bushing flanges....See pic of my LCA with Del-A-lum bushings...BTW, the bushings came from Global West and they included the piece of angle(pictured) in the bushing kit.

[MrQuick]

good stuff john,
every shop should have an assortment of pipe and tubing.

holy cow its about time....Im waiting for the "I can't get the old bushings out" thread....

I like to use an air chisle to collapse the inner circumfrence section of shell then the section that is inside the structure on the a arm, then try to get a section of the outside section on the shell part with the edge to stop it from going in too far...if done properly they will literaly fall right out. You can get the same results with a proper hammer and flat chisle.

The ball joint...just cut the boot off and whack it with a hammer while arm body is supported on a table or 4x4. Falls right out.


Vince

[tnbandit]

The ball joint fell out last night when it all came apart. I'm going to work on getting the control arms loose tonight when I get home from work. Wish me luck LOL.

[a67]

I like to live on the edge of death.....don't you guys wear face shields and leather clad kevlar jackets when your in the shop? I do...safety glasses and face shield and I've never seen a hammer shatter. What kind of hammers break? The Mythbusters couldn't do it with a quality hammer.

seriously yeah, be safe and use safety equipment.


Vince

You are really something else. You post a technique that can cause serious bodily injury and then joke about it. I was going to post some pictures of two hammers I picked up at a yard sale. A 4 # mini-sledge and a regular 10 # sledge.

Both have fractures out of the faces and down the sides. Obvious what the guy did.

And note that I never stated that the hammers would shatter. But that they will chip.

But you don't need to believe me. Check out this link:

http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/...hammer-strikes

As I said, never hit one hammer with another. And make sure that you read to comments to the article I linked.

Bob.

[JRouche]

Hi Bob. Ill agree, you really shouldnt hit a hammer with another hammer.

But my reasons are a lil diff. I dont do it because its hard on the tools. I like my tools and dont abuse them. So if I needed another piece of steel in between the object Im trying to hit and the hammer Ill always grab a piece of mild steel. Striking hardened steel against hardened steel is an abuse of tools if they were not meant for the purpose. You will usually see tools that do strike a hardened piece to another as one being a lil softer than the other. Or they are not hardened to the same levels. Think of a firing pin or an impact hammer. There is usually a softer piece in the path of force.

Now I didnt read all the comments on the post you supplied. But I think some of the safety issues might be one or two things.

Abuse of tools. Mushroomed heads on any hammer is an abuse. Heads do get deformed. But its up to the owner of the tool to dress the head of the hammer BEFORE it mushrooms out. Some folks like to just keep on hammering away for years as the head of the hammer mushrooms out and splits apart. YUP.. Thats a grenade waiting to happen.

Second, safety issues. Frickin eye protection!!! Yeah, Im 45 and I would rather loose any of my other bodily functions before my eye sight. Yup, cut and arm, leg. Gimme a poop bag, catheter this or that. And even one of my greatest enjoyments. Yeah, that one. But my eye sight is still number one. So anytime I go to town with a hammer or any other power tools I put on the glasses. I have a set hanging off every machine and five sets laying around ready to grab.

Put ON yer eye protection guys. Ive already been twice to the opto guy to have him dig out some metal. Besides being expensive its kinda painful. JR

You are really something else. You post a technique that can cause serious bodily injury and then joke about it. I was going to post some pictures of two hammers I picked up at a yard sale. A 4 # mini-sledge and a regular 10 # sledge.

Both have fractures out of the faces and down the sides. Obvious what the guy did.

And note that I never stated that the hammers would shatter. But that they will chip.

But you don't need to believe me. Check out this link:

http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/...hammer-strikes

As I said, never hit one hammer with another. And make sure that you read to comments to the article I linked.

Bob.

[MrQuick]

You are really something else. You post a technique that can cause serious bodily injury and then joke about it. I was going to post some pictures of two hammers I picked up at a yard sale. A 4 # mini-sledge and a regular 10 # sledge.



Both have fractures out of the faces and down the sides. Obvious what the guy did.



And note that I never stated that the hammers would shatter. But that they will chip.



But you don't need to believe me. Check out this link:



http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/...hammer-strikes



As I said, never hit one hammer with another. And make sure that you read to comments to the article I linked.



Bob.

actually Bob I am something else and its you that is making a matter of this. This was supposed to be a PM to you but since its out here I will aire it. humor<---
Please: Re read what I posted and you will see that I had no idea what a rehammer or unhammer or whatever it was. I was speculating on what the definition was. Someone asked. I offered no deadly technique. No hammer-fu here.

Another thing I find hinky is how one would get injured from shattering metal when one should clearly use safety glasses and a full face shield when the impacting of metals might be induced. Are we not using metal to impact metal? Seems redundently retorical.

Joke about it? Jokes are funny, that comment was to be taken ironic with the past posts on this thread. Its not as deep as I usually get so it should have been clear. The amount of scatter being circulated was over flowing and I was trying to un agitate our OP friend. The matter was just mind blowing.



If you knew me or have read any of my past threads you will clearly see that I will do my best to try to help someone that might need it. I am serious, I will spend hours, brain storn with collegues.... I don't care how many post counts you have, how much you contribute to the site, how many track days you have under your Simpson.... I will put forth ALL the cranial sucktitude I posses necessary to give aide or help along my fellow brethren to help fellow brethren come to an honest conclusion and get a possible problem solved just moved along dropping down the lonely tech section to be placed in a quiet archive just to be waiting to be pooped out for some member with a similar problem to help him with that ohh moment. <----light bulb



I'm not here to show off my flashy new LED tail lights, my fantastical 3 link suspension I made in Allen's dog house using nothing but used bachelorete party favors or feed the project frenzied wading pool of slightly frozen jello...but to think I would give bad advice that could cause one to loose ones virginity is just preposterous but I will acknowledge your disgust and tip my hat to you and vow, it will never have to cross your 19" monitor this year. <--sarcasum



I will never ever tell you how to think, I will just propose ideas that you can think about. We are all adults and we can make our own decisions.

Please be know that I am aware of my spelling but please understand that I have a very heavy Philippino accent.<--humor





but honestly the hammer deal. you can't always believe what you see on the internet. The mythbusters actually busted (<--pun-y) the hammer exploding hammer myth. I'd believe Cary Grant and Tory but in my heart I am sorry someone in cyber space was injured trying a barbaric method on hammer usage. I truly love hammers enough to not use them at the same time.

Its a misunderstanding that just should not have to be mentioned but yes I went there....lets get together and help someone.

Bob, please. Next time, pm me with a complaint like everyone else does. Most times its just read or typed out of context and just gets ugly with no other communication. Thank for being a great sport. And Cheers to TN bandit for getting it done.

Sincerely Vince

and JR...Mushroomed heads....hard on the tools...poop bag....I just don't know how to address this....silence might keep me out of trouble but it just because I am speechless. LOL My wife thanks you for that. LOL


But if you were to walk in my shop you would also notice eye, ear, head, hand and body protection hanging all over the place. Never give the guys an excuss for not using proper protection.

Mods please do not delete this, its my best work and I hate to have to cut and paste this into yet another thread. <---humor, please don't ban me...no really it is. It may take a few hours to soak.

[tnbandit]

Well I like your humor Vince! And honestly humor keeps us sane sometimes with some of these frustrating project we dive into! Right? Or was it left? And as you said we are all adults and make our OWN decisions. No matter how many different methods we are suggested or told to try, we are still accountable for only ourselves and not everyone else. As nobody else is accountable for me, but me. Thanks again for ALL the advice and suggestions!