Thank you. That should be doable. Not going to get to it this weekend. other projects....
On May 26, 2014 at 1:39 PM, "Scott Ritchey" <ritche...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >Maybe one of the pros will weigh in on this but here's what I >found: I >needed to remove all the brake stuff from the knuckle, I needed >to pop the >upper ball joint tapered shaft from the knuckle to swing the >knuckle out >enough to clear the tool that pops out the lower ball joint >tapered shaft >from the lower control arm). The knuckle needed to be removed >completely >and held inverted in a big vice to drive out the lower ball joint. > The >knuckle re-curves back over the centerline of the ball joint and >this blocks >pressing in the new BJ with anything simple. The "pipe" tool I >bought/used >was cut out in a way that lets the vertical part of the knuckle >run inside >the "pipe." > >As I understand it, the c-clamp tool is used "inverted" such that >the >tapered post of the BJ goes through the hole in the "bottom" of >the C-clamp >with no adapters on that end. This requires removing the rubber >grease boot >to the clamp presses directly on the body of the BJ. Then you >reinstall the >rubber boot. A picture makes this clear but I don't have one. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
