You could cut the rivets off with a chisel that cuts threw metal. Then
punch em out with a tool made for that. Use a jack and lift the suspension.
Take the bolt off on the bottom of the ball joint. Lower the jack after its
off. Use a ball joint spreader to pry them apart. Replace ball joint with
new one. Use the jack to lift it back into place. Put bolt back on
properly. And there we go
it looks as if that upper arm is for the left side.
Also, when using a pickle fork……..flat side on the part that you will
use again( in this case the upright, not the old ball joint!
I had the same problem with the seized rivets. Drill a 1/4″ hole right
through each cutoff rivet and use a tapered flat punch to start it off, the
rivet will start to move, finish it off with the bolt you removed from the
4th hole.
Hopefully I’m reading this right. at 2:04 I take it you are asking about
popping the bushing itself out of the top of the knuckle. So will go with
that. I take it the pickle fork looks like mine in the vid. At 1st I had
issues with it. Key to it is lowering the jack that is under the bottom
control arm to relieve pressure off it. Once that is done it takes some
serious pounding. I also slightly heated to bushing shaft up from the
bottom a little but shouldn’t be necessary. Hope this helps.
Hi thank you first off for making this video, I have a 1990 Chevy k1500
Silverado and it looks just like this underneath, I’m trying to replace the
upper control arm bushings and the upper ball joint but i am a bit stuck,
at 2:04 how did you get that up? do you need to grind the rivets off? I
went and bought a pickle fork and I just cant get it, I would appreciate
any help you can give me, thank you
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If my ball joints fail on my 1996 C1500 and the wheels go flying, so be it.
I am not going through this without air tools or a torch.
You could cut the rivets off with a chisel that cuts threw metal. Then
punch em out with a tool made for that. Use a jack and lift the suspension.
Take the bolt off on the bottom of the ball joint. Lower the jack after its
off. Use a ball joint spreader to pry them apart. Replace ball joint with
new one. Use the jack to lift it back into place. Put bolt back on
properly. And there we go
it looks as if that upper arm is for the left side.
Also, when using a pickle fork……..flat side on the part that you will
use again( in this case the upright, not the old ball joint!
I had the same problem with the seized rivets. Drill a 1/4″ hole right
through each cutoff rivet and use a tapered flat punch to start it off, the
rivet will start to move, finish it off with the bolt you removed from the
4th hole.
Hopefully I’m reading this right. at 2:04 I take it you are asking about
popping the bushing itself out of the top of the knuckle. So will go with
that. I take it the pickle fork looks like mine in the vid. At 1st I had
issues with it. Key to it is lowering the jack that is under the bottom
control arm to relieve pressure off it. Once that is done it takes some
serious pounding. I also slightly heated to bushing shaft up from the
bottom a little but shouldn’t be necessary. Hope this helps.
NO SOUND!
Cool, yeah this guy fucked up mine with balljoint spacers so I need to find
some longer upper arms for my chevy to install
Hi thank you first off for making this video, I have a 1990 Chevy k1500
Silverado and it looks just like this underneath, I’m trying to replace the
upper control arm bushings and the upper ball joint but i am a bit stuck,
at 2:04 how did you get that up? do you need to grind the rivets off? I
went and bought a pickle fork and I just cant get it, I would appreciate
any help you can give me, thank you
Do you have everything turned on? There is sound.
Thank you so much that worked,took me a few trys but I got it. Great Video.
Anybody told you that you Sound like the Macho Man Randy Savage in this
video…. OOOHHHH YEAAAHHHH!!!! Good Video and Tutorial…!