Ford transit ball joints without the special tool and front struts
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- This video will show you how to replace your front ball joints without the Rotunda Specialty tool. we will also be doing struts in this video as well. below are all the parts and corresponding part numbers you may need.
You will see that this transit will not get the dust cover put back on because the units that operate out of the station this truck lives at keeps getting stones stuck in between the dust shield and rotor. because its a recurrent problem I've opted to remove them on these specific trucks as its been such a recurrent issue. The torque for the bolts on the dust shield is 89 in lb
Left knuckle with ball joint installed: BK3Z-3K186C
Right knuckle with ball joint installed: BK3Z-3K185C
Ball joint nut: W711076-S442
Tie rod nut: W50215-S442
Strut: CK4Z-18124-E
Insulator: BK3Z-5414-B
Strut Bearing: BK2Z-18198-A
Strut mount: BK2Z-18183-B
Strut Retaining Nut" W700212-S442
Wheel bearing Bolt: W714650-S442
Wheel bearing: CK4Z-1104-G
Brake Rotor Bolt: W711141-S442
Brake Caliper Bracket Bolt: W500463-S442
update* strut assemblies are now available from masterpro the part number is 34FD1127
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So basically, unless you remove the whole thing, you can't do ball joints without the special tool. Thank you, Ford.
Yes
@@medtec6747 You should pin hugolafhugolaf's comment.
Yeah, and you have to remove the wheel bearing assembly to R&R the front rotors. It's my understanding that to R&Ring the rear rotors requires removing the axle shafts.
@@videopipeline6419 It does. Worst designs ever.
I guess you've never tried to work on a Mercedes or BMW... More special tools and fluids than Trump lies. That's not a political dig. Even if you support him y'all know he lies like snake. So does the other side and for way longer.
I like real time. There is lots of valuable commentary that would be missed otherwise.
Yep, I agree 40 min is fine
Thanks for tips
Man, your videos are gold. Don't stop. And for the record even though this is 2 years old, I love the long-form videos over fast forwarding from task to task. Thx.
Glad you like them!
Thanks for the video dude I’m replacing my lower control arms and struts tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.
Luck!
Nothing wrong with your videos my man. Just keep making em. If anyone has a problem they can fast forward or rewind accordingly.
Keep your videos like this. Great job, great videos❤️. Love from 🇳🇴
Just watch your video for the third time and realized you forgot to put the dust cover on the spindle I’m assuming you had to go back and take it all apart and put it on. Lol still appreciate all of the accurate description.
Just did this job with the new strut assembly from oreillys auto parts. Fit perfect and saved time. I’m in New Hampshire so tons of rust and seized everything. Recommendation just put all new back in. I dropped strut with everything attached. Then installed everything new, bolts, nuts,brakes, bearings, knuckle, tie rod end, stabilizer link,Ect…even new dust shields. (About $850 for both sides in parts )Everything was due anyways. Made it a lot easier because everything was seized. Only thing original I keep was caliper and bracket. Took about 2.5hours per side in driveway. Whole new front end. Drives mint !
love the real time video, i can FF to any point i need in a video, i cant garner more information if it isn’t available! Appreciate you putting this up, as i work on
Mercedes sprinter vans in a custom shop here in the PNW so the transit sitting on my 2-post right now is foreign subject matter when it comes to processes!
Great Video, The Detail is very good, so keep things the way they are, i just spent 2 days wrestling with a lower ball joint replacement on my mk6 transit, and your certainly correct, one cant press new ones in with out a proper press, I wish i had found your video 2 days ago !
Thanks for the video very helpful. Way better than the way I've been doing it
Real time video.
Thanks for this video 👍
Great video. Just what I am doing this week 🙂
Well made,I appreciate the "by the book" protocol. Keep the timing as is. Make a quick time video with torque specs and part #'s overlayed. Thanks for taking the time.
You just save my day thank u
Another Job Well done!
Hello
I love your video as well
This video is very valuable for everyone can do it by self
Thank you very much
Glad it was helpful!
finally a useful video to take apart this
you’re the best bro!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Great video
Thank you
I did mine with the O'Reilly tool a few years back, i really struggled with the ball joint removal and it seemed the angrier i got the more success i had removing it.
Just got back from the garage today and Monroe sells the complete strut. Well that is what I was told.
I used a couple hammers on the ball joints. Pounded it out, then pounded it in using the nut to protect threads while walking in the side bolts as the hammer made progress.
Te felicito por la limpieza de tu trabajo y por las espsificasione en libras lo qe se medificulta es quitar los asesores del tablero gracias
Estoy contento de que te gusten los videos mi amigo
Great video. I was able to pickup full front strut assembly from oreilley auto parts ! I hunted everywhere for them only place that offers full assembly as of July 2021….
NICE! Do you have the part #?
MasterPro Brand part#34FD1127
I'll add that to the description thanks so much
The love of Christ Compels you!!! I WILL be using that instead of the cuss words I have been using the last 27 years LOLOLOL
On my 2021 Transit the lower balljoint can be rotated with a T-50 which can be another method of getting the balljoint t 'unbind' so that it can be removed from the lower control arm.
Hey first off just wanted to thank u for the vids they’ve been very helpful with a transit that’s a glutton for maintenance. My question was if you could give me the part # or even just the exact bolt size of the knuckle pinch bolt? I picked up the knuckles and strut assembly but knuckles don’t come with em so against better judgement I reused the originals temporarily. Even up here in Maine it wasn’t too bad getting it all apart thanks to a healthy addiction to fluid film. Hope u catch this question thanks!
I would recommend not to put your foot in the wheel well if you are working at home.
There is a spot on the A-Frame towards the inside like an opening, you can put a pry bar in it and that makes the A-frame very easy to move for mounting and Dismounting main Ball joint. Good old principle of fulcrum..
Also it’s easier to Mount or Dismount ball joint with the wheels straight.
Can you please list the socket sizes you used for what? We watched the video but Im not sure where in the video the sizes are and I'm repairing now. Should've written them down
Good morning
I would like to ask about oil catch can Have you know about it ? If I do install for my transit encoboot
3.5 L is good idea and No damage engine?
Thank you so much
The pinch bolt torque is 76 lb ft, plus 180 degrees. I am installing a lift and was wondering about this. Do you use a new bolt? I guess it is the proper thing to do, but was wondering if you re-use bolts successfully and can still put the extra 180 degrees on it. Seems like it's an awful lot of torque to add 180 degrees. I started to add on and stopped at like 90 because I feel like I am approaching something like 180 lb ft on it, and last thing I want to do is break a bolt or strip it.
You can't say you did ball joints without special tools: you cheated and bought the whole knuckle assembly! But really, great video, thanks.
Oh I did it without the tool. I actually bought those loaded knuckles to have as hot spares for when I have to replace others. But I get your point. I really do wish ford made them easier for the DIY to do
Did you do a video on how to do the driver's side? I'm wondering how to get the strut off and how hard it would be to change all of this out on the drivers side also.
The driver side is easier as you don't have to move anything except some carpet out of the way
have you done the brakes yet? I forget if it's this vehicle, but it's crazy
I have a front and rear brake video for the transit
What was the indication for ball joint replacement? How many miles were on that rig?
They had lateral play it had 90k on it buts its 90k as an ambulance in the city so pretty hard knock life
I like real time. Why didn't you put the air shield back on the new assembly?
The place where this truck drives every day is a pea gravel parking lot and small stones kept getting wedged in the little hole that there for the ball joint and they are practiccly impossible to get out without removing the hub and rotor assembly. I talked about it in depth in the transit strut breakdown video.
Wow! Only a single bolt holding the knuckle to the strut... I wonder if the new "heavy duty" front axle (which has 6-bolt wheels) is the same way.
Legit laughed out loud how you just took that rotor and hub off like it was nothing. Here in Boston its impossible to do
I feel your pain we have a few trucks from Canada I have mad respect for rust belt mechanics
Any particular reason you left the dust shield off? What I would have liked to see you explain or show is what lead you to determine this had to be done. Did the ball joint fail or the strut assembly start making noise? They definitely don't make these vehicles easy to work on for fleet purposes.
Yes we were seeing if we did that we would catch less small stones in that hold that they make in it for the ball joint that causes what my emts call a metal on metal grinding noise every time a little pebble wedges its way in there.
The ball joints may have had some play to them and we replace all of them at 100k no matter what I can't remember what was which on this unit
I'm chasing down a front end passenger side clunk now on a transit. I do plan on uploading that video of how I go about it myself but I give you a lot of credit working on these big junks
We get that complaint a lot I first start with making sure you haven't had one of the control arm vertical bolts in the rear rust out and break which can cause the whole subframe to shift, next I check bushings in the lowe control arm and then I side load the struts. It's almost always one of those
I can lightly rock the van from the door and hear the clunk or over uneven pavement. Took the sway bar links off.
technically it is LBFT. IE 206 LBs per square foot. But ya I get it.....FootPounds rolls off the tongue easier.
I surprised the tone ring doesn't have a dust cover.
Real time please
Dust cover
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@@medtec6747 do you eliminated the dust cover in the disc
@@carlosotero9984 oh gotcha yes there is a little hole near the ball joint shield that pretty large stones keep getting caught in and rub against the rotor. pretty sure it comes from the driveway that these ambulances go in and out of every day. I've been taking them off on the trucks that are in that station because its been happening so frequently. The shields on the transit don't have any air scoops like you see on an E-350 they mostly just keep dust off the rotors but I saw the gravel that keeps getting stuck in there as a greater threat so I remove them from trucks on that station. I wouldn't really recommend doing it unless its a common problem for you but the five or so nights that Ive had to drive to the station in the middle of the night to get a rock out of there for a truck with "grinding brakes" is enough to for me to warrant it.
When I was editing this video I cut out the part where I was listing off al the part numbers and pointing them out It seemed a bit droney to me so I figured Id just list them in the description and apparently I cut out the part where I talked about that and didn't realize it. That's why I was wondering what you meant when you said dust cover. Ill update the description with that tid bit. Thanks for the feedback.
@@medtec6747 thank, your video give me a lot of advice I work with ambulance to in Puerto Rico
Maybe just speed up the interaction with your boss
The title of this video is severely misleading. You should put Loaded Struts and Knuckle replacement. You didn't R&R the Balljoints you just replaced the knuckle.
The knuckle I replaced is the ballpoint knuckle assembly ford sells the ball joint and knuckle come together, if you don't want to buy thr special tool to R&R the ball joint what I show you in the video is your only option with the transit
@@medtec6747 I didn't use a special tool from ford to remove the ball joint. I went to a hardware store and got "2" 5/8-18 Nuts welded the nuts together to make a long nut. Then welded them to the nut that came off the ball joint and used a slide hammer. In about 20-25 slides it came out. Plus I live in Maine where rust is terrible. But... I'm also a World Class Technician and very creative. So there's that.
@@ASEWorldClassTech I dont doubt you are very capable and indeed world class. I was just getting at the fact that without using and or making special tools you can get the ball joint and knuckle together for a pretty decent price and replace them as an assembly is all I was saying.