muddfildvaynes Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) So last weekend me and some buddies decided to go wheeling at midnight to a trail about 15 minutes away from my house.... Its a pretty adventurous trail as I have not even explored most of it but found this pretty awsome loop that takes about a hour to complete. I had just put new wheel bearings in and was testing them out, afterwords I took it to my brothers shop and found the wheel bearings loose so I tightened them and took it on this trail again and up this awsome rock/hill climb I found and had to gass it a couple times in order to make it over this flexy spot (which I am going to have to get pics of me flexing on). Anyways my tires started shaking violently like the death wobble on the way back to my house so I took it back to the shop finally today and after some investigation I found out it was the lower ball joint.... It sucks having to change that ball joint, I had to take my manual hubs off and take the cv axle out, then take the ball joint off... When putting the new Moog joint on the stud built into the pressure plate that goes on the other side of the A-arm decided to start spinning so I had to weld the stud back into the plate and it finally went on after some convincing.... Put it all back together and it finally feels normal again even though there is the shaking of the super swampers.... Glad to be back on the trail/road. Edited December 13, 2010 by muddfildvaynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01silvapathy Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Damn dude, thats a helluva lot of stuff to go wrong. But hey you have to pay to play right? Glad its all worked out now, and I hope I dont have the issues you had when I finally get around to changing my ball joints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skulptr Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 why do you have to do all that to do a lower ball joint?? the only thing i unbolted when doing mine was the ball joint itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddfildvaynes Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 Well it shouldn't wear out for awhile now.... and at least it didnt happen to me on the trail.... and I play alot lol..... So it was bound to happen... They never said having fun was cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddfildvaynes Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) why do you have to do all that to do a lower ball joint?? the only thing i unbolted when doing mine was the ball joint itself. well the cv was in the way to get the ball joint out yet alone get the new one in.... so i had to remove it and to remove that I had to take the manual hub off.... Edited December 13, 2010 by muddfildvaynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01silvapathy Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 When you say take the manual hub off, you dont mean the whole manual hub do you....cause its not necissary. All you need to do is take the allen screws off and remove the snap ring...then the cv should unbolt at the drive flange on the axle and remove the lower control arm bolts and then the cv should slide down and out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddfildvaynes Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 Yea I took the whole manual hub off... I realized I didn't need to afterwards lol.... it worked out anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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