how to install new balljoints

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mike113

i have a 94 voyager with a torn balljoint, can anyone get me steps in how
to replace it.
 
If you want to do it yourself to save money it can be a nasty hard job. You
have to have a ball joint press for one thing because the ball joint is
pressed into the lower control arm. Plus if you aren't carefull you can
pull the CV joint apart. I can tell you how most shops do it but you'd br
better off buying a Haynes Manual on the chysler vans. The explain it not
too bad and they have illustrations to help.
 
By the time you buy the tools to do it you might as well have a shop do it.
Larry
 
no way it's about a 45 minuet job with rented tools. where a shop will bill
2+ hrs book time.
 
It's a 45 min job perhaps to you or me who knows what they're doing and has
tools. My gues is the op has neither. In this case he is better off going to
a mechanic.
Larry
 
I agree here.
Not to mention a coil spring gone wild is not a pretty sight!
 
PC Medic said:
I agree here.
Not to mention a coil spring gone wild is not a pretty sight!
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Except that one would be no where near the coil spring when
replacing lower ball joints on a 94 minivan.
 
I think you meant to say; by the time you pay a shop to do it, you might as
well buy the tools and do it yourself. Then you can keep the tools forever,
and you don't have to worry about sabotage at the garage, and it's more
convenient.
 
Joe said:
I think you meant to say; by the time you pay a shop to do it, you might as
well buy the tools and do it yourself. Then you can keep the tools forever,
and you don't have to worry about sabotage at the garage, and it's more
convenient.
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Hell yeah that's what he meant. I mean any smart citizen knows you can't
really trust your car to the man who wears the star. Damn Chineese and their
covert ops out to disrupt the morning commute by placing a time delay device
on all the vehicles they service. Besides what could be more 'convenient'
than crawling under the car yourself. Well ok, maybe dropping it off and
going to grab some lunch while someone else does the job, but besides that I
mean! :0)
 
Mike,

I assume it is the lower joint?
I've replaced mine (1993 T&C) by hand force:
disconnect sway bar, removed the lower arm, remove the grease tap from the
joint.
using a barrel-like tool, i have knocked out (brute-force) the old joint
with a hammer.
Heat it with a blower, if needed.
clean the bore.
put the new joint in the freezer, meanwhile heat the lower arm, grease it.
I could get the new joint in quite easy, using GENTLE taps with a hammer
using a barrel-type tool, to protect the joint.
i made it from junkyard tube.
I think i had the joint boot removed for tapping it down.
Act quickly, as the joint warms up.
I did not need front-end alignment, since i did not remove the strut.
Took me 2-3 hours.
2 yrs now ; still running OK.

Andre
 
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