Replacing ball-joints and press-fit bearings/bushes without using a press
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2020
- My car failed a warrant of fitness due to worn out lower arm bushes and ball joints. I don't have a hydraulic press so I had to do it shade-tree style with a big hammer.
I used temperature differences to contract the internal parts and expand the external housings, it makes the job so much easier. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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LOL. Hand tools to remove suspension parts? No need for a torch? No broken bolts? No holes rusted through the control arm? Not even a single curse word uttered? New Zealand must be on another planet!
Notice also how the sun is always shining, and all the nice old machines are either dirt cheap or just parked out in the bush for ages, but still in remarkable shape. New Zealand is clearly a fairy tale land.
@Watch Wes Work
Notice how he works on the ground, that way when he drops something its always within reach.
Just what I was thinking. It is anther planet it’s stunning where he lives. We are same as you here in the Uk as soon as it hits 0c they out with the salt. Are cars and trucks are rusty as horse shoes on the suspension parts. You’d say crusty. 🇬🇧👍🏻
Those Mazda 323's are solid built, they don't fall apart like the farm equipment does.. :P
Come on over, the water's fine ;).
Little tip: When you tighten the bolts on the new bushings to the subframe, jack up the strut so the spring is compressed. If you tighten them before, the bushings will twist under load and wear prematurely ;-)
Yeah no one does this. Only people who've worked at dealers and received the proper training
Thats right must be tighten at normal car /suspension position
No room in my freezer... it’s too full of toilet paper. 😂
LOL, okay Buddy, I'll bite. Why do you put your toilet paper in the freezer, Hemorrhoids? :Q
Prey Mantas The Coronavirus! The news stations have said to buy all the TP you can and we are storing it in any space we have!
Local Curry is mega hot!!
@@petenash7994 Lol!
LOL!!
From the stoic, dry, Marty, a comedy end. Didn't think you had it in you.
Thanks!
Clearly there isn't road salt in NZ, love the mask at the end, totally wasn't expecting that.
I think they just use road grit here
Another fine episode of post apocalypse auto repair from Marty T.
Looks like Marty took the ham out of the freezer, too! Thanks for making the great videos!
Nice job Marty, about 45 years ago I replaced most of the steering/front suspension ball joints, control arm bushings, Ect on a 1964 Pontiac Lemans. No special tools, only several misc pipe diameters, 1” all thread with nuts and washers and steel plates (red neck coil spring compressor) a oxy/act torch and a carefully directed ball peen hammer. Was working on a budget
Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍😎😎😎 Cary
Necessity is the mother of invention. Well done removing/installing without muss or fuss.
We appreciate the methodology behind the work.
Thanks for sharing.
"If I hadn't cooled and heated that, I would've been here for ages". I watched this video two weeks too late! Took over 4 hours and was cut out in the end... Will not forget this trick. Thanks Marty!
When you put it back together you put the steering wheel on the wrong side!
:o
No, no! He's one of the rare ones on YT who actually drives on the "correct" side.
@@chriswills9530 21 countries drive on the left the other 170 or so drive on the right. You'd think we could have got agreement on one side or the other. It's pretty much a British thing though and well, there's form there for such decisions!!
@@disturbedcarrot Yep, absolutely: Brits, Aussies, and to a lesser extent, Kiwis form the majority of the "Awkward Squad", as in we love being the eccentric, left field, grit in the oyster, rather than meaning we are socially inept ... although that might have some mileage when it comes to some of my fellow citizens.
@@chriswills9530 "Awkward Squad!", I like that term. Might borrow it for a multitude of uses! Thanks Chris!
Haha..good on the respirator ending. What a crazy time we live in.
Loved the Corona virus reference...I always enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
Aloha, After 80 years on this this old ball, I have problems arguing with success. I love my press, but I have been there and done that when I was working for a commercial shop.
Good old swing press, helped me out a few times 🖒
It is amazing how an unseen or overlooked locking ring can make removal impossible. I've seen a control arm in a press crack while trying to remove a ball joint with the ring still on. Great video.
I;d say its a common mistake, they get covered in dirt and oil so they're easy to overlook
Funny Marty!!! Love watching your shade-tree work! Thank you so much for sharing!!! :-))
Nice work! In the past I have cut the bush out, then ran a bead with the stick welder on the metal part. Quickly cool with a wet rag and it falls out of the control arm.
Great vid, really love the shade tree work you do.
What a great idea freezing the bushings. Would never have thought of it! Thanks for the tip! Well done!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Loved the "wrong way Corrigan" move at the end Marty. Watching the video brought me back to the time I was helping a friend attempt to remove the flywheel off of a 150 hp Mercury outboard motor. After failing with the wheel puller he put the oxy/acetylene torch on it. The flywheel came off with a resounding "PING" and jumped eight feet in the air, removal would have been easier if we had removed the taper pin first. Great video, thumbs up.
Hi Marty you we're reading my mind also have a peace of train track .make a huge difference when the spring is gone . Thanks for sharing 👍have a great one 🇨🇦 Craig. Now on to your next video 😀
I always enjoy watching your videos Marty, you’re one awesome mechanic my friend!
Thank you for posting these videos. As a young man i'm learning a lot from watching you working!
Thanks for this video. Dealing with a similar control arm and can't get the bushings out. will try this.
Great job removing and installing the bushings!
Great video, very instructive! Here in Southern California, they don't care about the state of the suspension or brakes, only the engine emissions. Your wheel can fall off and you can crash into a tree, provided that you don't choke the onlookers. The tree owner will then sue you for not maintaining you vehicle.
Have to balance cost vs aggravation too - especially when you live somewhere where the roads are salted in the winter like I do. I had to do the same job to my car and bushings/balljoint vs complete new loaded control arm was $92 vs $165. Was ten minutes opposed to possibly hours wrestling with rusted/seized bushings/balljoint.
Brilliant content, excellent chat.
Ive done this many times an everytime i do it a different way lop makes it interesting. Great vid.
love the ingenuity.
Lol love it, I thought those things were impossible by hand, trust you to make it look easy:) I feel a new sense of calm when I next tackle a car problem..
Nicely done Marty!
Great tip!! Thanks boss!
Good job Marty. As resourceful as you are, I believe you could build yourself a press with a old bottle jack and some scrap steel.
Thank you Marty, this really helped me to do the job. good luck :)
That gave me a chuckle at the end marty thanks
Keep em comin. Great entertainment for when our wee country goes into lockdown. Stay safe!
Another great video Marty.
Great job ! and has always I liked, shared. All my best.
Lovely, Nice video marty.
Love the Kiwi Ingenuity of using temp diff in lieu of a press - proper bush mechanics.
Great video
Well done very informative thanks
One of the best,on you tube,all the best Lyn.
Haha my favourite video so far, love the ending!
I was hoping for something unexpected. But this is all the better because its the simple right way, in my profession we tend to freeze parts and heat the recieving parts even when we use the press.
Great video, stay safe!
Great sense of humor! Thanks
Nice job!!!
A bottle jack under the D2 should be ball the press you would need for this job.
I've done that before. A bottle jack and the frame of the beater I was working on. It's quick and dirty, but it does work.
I once had a two tonne vehicle held up by a jack under a ball joint and it still would budge.
👍❤️
Nice tutorial
Torque all suspension bolts only when under load, like weight of car, never in the air.
Nicely done with hammer. I have to try it myself.
I've seen some heating up the parts with a propane torch....but they always end up setting the grease or the old rubber on fire. No doubt the heat gun is safer.
Nice video ❤ thanks
Good technique on the steering arm and the mask, mate!
Best video I’ve seen yet
..great info. good job on a d.i.y. project...have a good weekend..
Like the new designer wear look!
I get a few funny looks in town but I think they're just jealous
When you are town I bet you can find a hydraulic press for cheap that you can rebuild! Always enjoyable videos.
I saw a 20 tonner a while ago for $50 on marketplace but just missed out. Cheers
Thank you for the fun!! :-)
You can also pull them out and in using a threaded rod and some suitable bushings on either side.
The advantage is you can do that without even fully removing the arms from the car if you want.
Here in Texas, if I left those parts in the freezer very long, one of my buddies would BBQ it for sure! :-)
Yeah, i think il'l do it your way, cheap an no special tools required. Thanks for the vid!
Leaning everyday cheers marty
Said: "Can't be too careful this days"... and had reverse gear in instead of forward! ;-) :-) LOL
Careful? By the way: Don't hammer on your (big) nuts without protecting them! :-) ;-)
Best regards, luck, health and wisdom.
Been there and done it...press is a blessing lol..x
Need 3.5” cup to press bushing out on a Ford Escape. Loosen control arm frame bolts to help with ball joint and once loose have someone turn steering wheel a little bit and it will fall right out with a crowbar through the control arm hole and medium pressure. Best of luck my press cup from advance bushing kit was 1/4” to small to press out my vertical bushing. I hear exhaust pipe can work, I didn’t have any that large.
Sometimes when you price up the individual bushes and ball joints it's cheaper to just buy a complete new arm which saves lots of time and hassle?
Your next project, a press. Like the bit a the end.
That is the best way to do it. I cringe at amateurs using hydraulic presses and applies pressure wherever they can and distorting the ball run. OR even dumber, doing the pressure point correctly, but just beating the living shit out of it to make it fit because they don't think temperature matters when you have Bars
Thanks 👍
Beauti ! Love it ...
Circlips are directional fitment & have a side that faces outwards against they way they would be forced off. If you look closely, one side of the inner diameter of the circlip has a rounded edge & the opposite has a 90 degree sharp edge. eBay has G-clamp type balljoint presses that are good value.
Marty T and Adrew Camarata should do a collaboration
Both are geniuses in their own way
made that look easy! i have a harder time using the tools that are made for this job!
I like using a 2 inch hole saw on them when they’re frozen. it leaves the outer steel sleeve in there, but it comes out easily with a chisel. Maryland/pennsylvania roads get a lot of salt.
Thats a good trick, then do you cut out the old sleeve with a metal blade?
You can use car barrel jacks (ram) sandwiched between heavier objects like concrete doors or big rock and you excavator /dead weight of the lift to make a hydraulic makeshift press :-)
That you made look. Real easy. That steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car. Lol.
My pt cruiser has the same lower control arm!!
ROTFL! The $100 full face respirators were about all that were left in Bunnings today. Then I went to Pac & Save and queued up behind a Pacifica woman at the checkout who had four giant packs of toilet rolls. That was 48 rolls of toilet paper for fecks sake. There was also no Paracetamol on the shelves. For non NZ subscribers, NZ has just introduced a compulsory 14 day self isolation for _everyone_ entering the country. That will effectively kill out tourist industry, but at least we won't need to worry about RVs coming round the bend on the wrong side of the road.
BTW Years ago we had a line stopping event over rubber bushes. This was the MK3 Cortina that had front and rear sub-frames. It was possible for the front sub-frame to be all the forward, and the rear to be all the way back, and the prop shaft to pop out of the back of the gearbox! It was a 24/7 all the overtime you wanted for us at Dunton (Ford Product Development), which some people loved. The fix was voided bushes that were mounted with the solid bit front and rear, and the voids top and bottom. So simple you wonder why it was not that way from the beginning.
Here in North America where we're all fat and lazy, a "giant pack" of asswipe IS 48 (or 60) rolls. And we have idiots out grabbing up 3 and 4 of these giant packs. I don't know about other people's t-p usage habits, but those "giant packs" last me pretty much a whole year. Maybe if the person is an eat-a-holic who can't stop shoving food into their face, they might go through t-p at a somewhat higher rate. I'm sure that a family would consume it a bit quicker, too... but yanking that much in one haul just shows what a glutton a person is. It also shows that people like that are idiots who follow fecesbook and believe every word they read on it.
I changed the rear suspension bushings last weekend, totally forgot I have a heat gun, I teared out the center and sawed the outer collar. I'll try this with the front side.
Great Vid I have exactly this problem so u do not need to take the front Bumper etc off to swap that bushing out cool! I thought u did☺
You should replace the small bush as well by grinding off the flange ,but most meks replace the whole arm for a reason.
Thank you :)
Oh man , the respirator at the end 🤣😄😃👍👍🇺🇸
A good vice works as a press in times of need
nice one
Nice work! xD
Ice or dry ice works well in that application also.
Marty get yourself a damn workbench! My knees hurt just watching!
Nice! But do keep an eye out for a bearing press abandoned in the forest. One's bound to show up.
lol marty, good stuff!
You can have all the protection you want, but if you run out of toilet paper...
If you run out of TP, that would make you "poop" out of luck, I say.
That's when you sacrifice a sock ..............
Far better off to get a new control arm assembly with bushings installed. Beating the hell out of the bushings will shorten their life for sure. Also how much is your time worth screwing around like this ?
I'm soooo glad we don't have vehicle inspections in the US!
Just way too "nanny state" for me.
Depends on where you live in the US.. In Missouri, you do have to have vehicle inspections. As I type this, im waiting for my appointment to get my car inspected.
@@demandred1957 Also in TX. Metropolitan areas also have emissions test.
The UK are big on roadworthy tests (M.O.T test) every year and if you don't the police will impound your vehicle if you trigger the number plate recognition system.
Well clearly many people need that nanny state. I've seen wheels held on with only two lug nuts (front wheel on a front wheel drive). Steel belts showing on tires. Rotors ground down until the fins were showing.
@Steven M. The checks are getting quite picky here and more expensive every year, I know a few people don't bother and just keep a bit aside for a $200 fine if caught
sure got the job done steering wheel on the right works great for the US mail carrier's
I wonder what that bit at the end was referencing to? Hmm..
He probably needs supplies for the zombie invasion :)
@@Ajaxaxxess Ohhh of course 😂
Corona virus i assume 😅
@@octane_6327 Don't joke about the corona virus, I actually have it! 😂😂
@@octane_6327 Same here.. jeesh.. i was talking bout zombies n stuff.. no need to be all "virusy insensitive"
Should mention wrapping up the object in plastic to keep the flavour in when it goes in the Freezer?
nice ending... hahahaha
See a new Marty T vid in my feed, smile and hit like!
Marty, that full-face mask of yours is probably the only type that would do any good!