Ball joints/pretty much front sus. teardown

[velocitySiR]

i posted this in a thread for dilbert, it was off the top of my head but it's pretty accurate if you wanna find out how to get your spindle separated, and after that you have clear access to tear off anything you want like axles, control arms shit like that

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ok your gonna need to find somebody to professionally press them, unless you have an autozone to borrow or know somebody that has a ball joint press they'll let you borrow, but here's how you do it...... if i forget somthing this is all by memory

1. take the wheel off
2. take the banjo pin for the brake hose outta the caliper
3. unbolt the caliper and pry it off
4. get a set of needle nose pliers and undo the cotter pins outta the upper and lower joints. and tie rod end
5. undo the axle nut.
6. grap the rotor and turn it so you can get the axle out of the hub
7. unbolt the upper joint nut, then pry it out, then do the same for the tie rod end, then last the lower control arm.
8. if your lucky the whole spindle knuckle rotor and all should of fell on your foot, where you will toss it in the street while screaming profanities so your neighbors will confirm you are white trash
9 find a vice or a trusting friend to hold the spindle and get a big fuckin hammer and beat the joint out, now just press the new one in, or find a place to do it, normally a garage will do it for a few bucks or a sexual favor.

[cottagecreep]

note, break wheel nuts and your big ass 32mm axle nuts when the car is on the ground, do your axle nut first, than your wheel nuts. Getting those axle nuts off is one of the most difficult parts of this job, depending on who put them on last, and how strong their air gun was. Make sure you bend the tabs back out as far as humanly possible.

The idea of it all is easy enough, its all just a BITCH to get it apart. A good air gun, and a good compressor will make your life SO much easier. We broke a 17" johnson bar, a 1/2" ratchet, and a 3/8" ratchet. We also broke many other items doing this, thank god for warranties.

[velocitySiR]

one time the electric snap on impact didn't do it so we used a koho stick

[dilbert]

We ended up breakin down and just putting it back together after like 8h of screwin around with it.  I took it to Crappy Tire where it took them like 30 min with good tools to get off.  The air gun I had was a cheap one.  We also bent a 42" crowbar into a candy cane (the part that is supposed to be straight) or we would turn the engine over.  I suggest just taking it into a shop to get it done.