Ball Joint Replacement?

[tmontague]

You can use a grease fun with a needle on the end to re fill the mount with grease. Unless it's shot (loose) then I wouldn't change it yet.

But if you do want to change it You could go 2 ways. One, change the whole control arm with an aftermarket one that comes with new bushings and a ball joint. They can be found fairly cheap and my experience was they last at least 40k km (i scrapped my car before the aftermarket control arms wore out). Only thing is you are going to want to make sure the old ones will come out due to the corrosion before you order new ones.

Option 2 is to make sure you have the right press tool and just order an aftermarket ball joint and just press them in the control arms.

Only aftermarket I have experience with for ball joints is Moog when they come with grease fittings which is a plus

[zoidberg444]

Originally Posted by tmontague

You can use a grease fun with a needle on the end to re fill the mount with grease. Unless it's shot (loose) then I wouldn't change it yet.

But if you do want to change it You could go 2 ways. One, change the whole control arm with an aftermarket one that comes with new bushings and a ball joint. They can be found fairly cheap and my experience was they last at least 40k km (i scrapped my car before the aftermarket control arms wore out). Only thing is you are going to want to make sure the old ones will come out due to the corrosion before you order new ones.

Option 2 is to make sure you have the right press tool and just order an aftermarket ball joint and just press them in the control arms.

Only aftermarket I have experience with for ball joints is Moog when they come with grease fittings which is a plus

Thanks for the input mate.

I think either option will be pretty unpleasent on my vehicle. When i did the clutch i had a right fun time trying to get the rear engine mount bolt out of the sub frame. I can only imagine how bad the control arm bolts are.

I think i will get the tools and the ball joints ready for when they do go.

I remember looking for ball joints a few years ago when i saw how expensive the OEM control arms were and there wasn't anything on the parts websites but all of a sudden there seem to be options. Strange. I'll wait and see.