It's incredible that a 5 minute job would charge $70 per! All you need is a press and some pieces of pipe to use as adapters, to press the old ones out and the new ones in. I bought my 12-ton A-frame press from HarborFreight for under a hundred bucks. This job is simple and quick, as he said, just paying attention to the alignment notches on the joints. This will align the slotted raceways to face the proper direction that will allow full suspension travel. Put it on wrong, and they'll wear out quickly and worse yet, probably end up breaking off while driving! If you lived near me, I'd do the press-work for free! My overall advice is that if you're gonna do this work, then you should get the tools. The money that you paid for the one-time shop fee, would have paid for a press of your own, and you'd have it forever for many other uses! Unless you have a friend with a fully-equipped shop that'll let you do things for free!
Mike B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon & Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:47 PM Subject: [vintagvw] Ball joints > Hi, > > I have never changed just the boot, I always change the ball joint. It > can be done with a good puller to press out the old one and press in the > new. Make sure the notch is in the same place as the old one. I used two > tie down straps to pull the ball joint pin back in place to put the nut > on. > > Hope that helps - Good luck, > > Damon > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
