HOW TO : Dodge 2500 3500 STUCK Balljoint REMOVAL trick
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Pro tip way of removing the stuborn lower balljoint on a 3rd gen dodge 2500-3500 with solid front axle
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I love youtube . Ive worked on allot of different vehicles . I know how to do the job but like to come on and see stuff just like this that will save me time and a sore back. Thanks for posting.
Thanks man! I thought I needed to buy a shorter screw for my press tool but couldn't find one, and ran across your video. It was a total pain to do it backwards, but at least it worked!
Genius.. I greatly appreciate it . I said the same thing you did .. spent way to much time messing with it . Took a break tonight searched a fresh perspective.. here was your video I’m going to try it .. thanks for for taking the time to make it and post it.
saved my ass last night the angle is a killer. thanks man
Great pro tip; literally just had to do this for both lower ballpoints. Worked like a charm.
thanks! glad it worked for you!
I have an 06 3500 and these must be the original ball joints. I am by no means a mechanic. Teaching myself as my truck needs work. This was some serious shit.
The *only* thing that got the lower out for me was bracing the lower control arm (hydraulic jack) and beating the absolute shit out of it with a sledge. Even after I got it moving, the press still couldn't push it the rest of the way out. I ended up getting an old socket, sticking it on top of the ball joint (as it was part way down the hole) and sledging the shit out of it some more until it finally came out.
Still gotta get the top one out and press the replacements in. Had to take a break after the above ...
sounds like a nightmare. hopefully the top ones come out easier for ya
Reminds me of when my dad had to do his pickup ball joints. Drivers side was stubborn, he was relentless with his sledge! LOL!!
On my Jeep JK I ended up getting a 6' black iron pipe on a breaker bar. I had severe rust on the C's and could not get the clamp to stay straight. Used a lot of penetrating oil and a torch to help out. When I finally got it to move the ball joint sounded like a gun shot and the threads were so galled on the tool that I could not get it to come apart to go back in the case. When I took the loaner tool back to Advance I told them what happened and gave them a sorry, guy told me it happens all the time and corporate would send them a new tool, didn't charge me anything.
Gonna give this a shot. Just had an all afternoon war in the driveway on pass side. Tried heat. I ended up drilling a hole in the top. Melted the inside. Pressed the ball out. Cut a relief from the drilled hole to the edge of the C with some precision sawzall work. Lol. Smacked it with a hammer. Fell right out. If i go right at that way wont take me as much time. But gonna try this first. Lower ball joints on rams suck as im finding out. Ill get the air hammer ready when i do the other side in a couple days. Dont want to anything that galls the hole. Guys get frustrated and end up having the weld em in. Haha.
Good luck 👍👍
@@Wrenchlife604 so closing the loop. Heres the trick that worked on other side. Tighten it like you did. Whack that c with your purse. Comes right out. Like a big tre.
God bless you sir.
I'm replacing my carli ball joints with new Carli ball joints. I'm running into a situation where I can't get my knuckle to slide up the new ball joint studs. I tried to force it up by tightening the lock nuts with two wrenches, but I've got them as tight as I can and there's still almost a quarter inch to go before the knuckle is all the way up
Thanks for the tip using press upsidedown with hammer. But why no one uses heat? I need to do that work for my 2500 and planning to use some propane too.
Heat wasnt working for me. The cast iron differential dissipated heat and is hard to get hot enough. Propane wont work.
i wish i had watched this video...i had the same issue on my ram and i bent the c frame cause of this exact problem. ..i got them out but it was a fight.
Thanks a lot for posting this :)
Ive been fighting with the drivers for about 5 days, I just bought a Makita 1,200 lbs of torque, with a press tool, it didnt even moved! It just laughed at me.!
What happens if you try to use a cutting torch to the center lol then hammer them through? 😂
The passenger side gave me a lot more troubles. in the video i did the driver side which went pretty smoothly. but expect to repeat the tightening and airhammering repeated sequence a few times before you get it to move.
05 3500 I'm in need of offset ball joints. Opinion? Advice? Am I correct there is no camber adjustment on these trucks?
To prevent this from happening put anti seize on your new ball joints.
Not really a trick, that is the way the factory service manual describes how to do it - except for the air hammer part. Good to have someone on youtube actually doing it with the tool in the correct orientation!
Also if you tap the Knuckle housing it does the same thing
What is the measurement for the inside of the C press? Is this a standard press or a bigger taller C press?
Standard style press. Was a cheaper model too i believe. So nothing special
@@Wrenchlife604
You do not know the model of it?
I am looking at an Astro Pneumatic Tool one.
Believe is similar to the one i linked in the description box of the video
Do you have Parkinsons or something?? But seriously now, great info in this video, but PLEASE hire someone else to hold the camera. I'm dizzy and have a headache now......
hhahah yah its kinda hard to re watch. vid was recorded on my cell phone that dosnt have image stability so its maad shakey. my fault
Wrench life 604 I'm just giving you shit..... Thanks for posting the vid.
Just did mine today ended up torching them out
Solid tip. most shaky camera ive seen hahah
I dont have an air chisel. Do you think it will be just about the same if I smacked the S *** out of it with a BFH around the outer perimeter of the housing? It's cast iron, should be fine I guess....1st time doing a 4x4. Thanks.
yours should come out with just the ball joint serperator tool if it isnt too siezed. the truck i did this on was a 400,000km canadian truck so it was pretty siezed. usualy you can take a BFH and strike the housing where the balljoint sits to help brake it loose. the air chisel is if its realy jammed in there.
good luck. either it will be easy, or a nightmare
I'm trying to get my upper bj out of my F250...... currently sitting in a 12ton arbor press.....still won't pop.... even with heat and penetrant.😢
Yeah, this is the 2nd ball joint press that I break! Fvk!
Terrible video dude, get some image stabilization going man!