how to install new balljoints

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.

no way it's about a 45 minuet job with rented tools. where a shop will bill

I agree here. Not to mention a coil spring gone wild is not a pretty sight!

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.

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.

Andre

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