BX ball joint
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BX ball joint
Well it's not often i'm put off by the task of changing a ball joint but I just noticed that the BX lower balljoint is fitted into the hub upright by a press or interference fit. It seems you need an impact wrench to work it. Is this a non DIY thing (i.e. I don't possess an impact wrench) and I'd have to take it to my Citroen indie for such a usually easy thing?
Anyone done one of late?
Anyone done one of late?
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This topic seems to come up from time to time.
See http://www.bxclub.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6418 for example.
where a lump hammer and a dull chisel seems to be in order.
Also some talk of using nut splitters..
I've never done one myself but I watched a mechanic using the hammer and chisel method and it seemed fairly straight forward.
David
See http://www.bxclub.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6418 for example.
where a lump hammer and a dull chisel seems to be in order.
Also some talk of using nut splitters..
I've never done one myself but I watched a mechanic using the hammer and chisel method and it seemed fairly straight forward.
David
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I assume they are talking about item 3 and 9 in the picture below.
Also in http://www.bxclub.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5439
Hope it helps.
David
Also in http://www.bxclub.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5439
At any rate this is the information I have filed away at the back of my mind in case I ever have to do one.docchevron1472 wrote: As for the ball joints, never used the proper tool, I just hit them with a punch and a Billy sized hammer.
Have you knocked the tabs down?? They wont undo if you dont!
If you look at the back face of the hub carrier you'll see two indents in it, the face of the ball joint is peened over into them to stop it coming undone, tap them out, apply punch and big hitting stick, job donr!
Hope it helps.
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I've sucessfully done these before now with nothing more than removing the hub, mounting in a vice and then using a pair of stilsons and an extension tube. You can hit them, but I've yet to need to.
Apparently you can do them in situ on the car, but removing the hub is fairly easy and makes the job much more straightforward.
Apparently you can do them in situ on the car, but removing the hub is fairly easy and makes the job much more straightforward.
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/\ what he said.
If you remove the hub from the car and stick it in a vice then Stilsons be your friend.
I use the hammer and chisel solution as I nearly always do them on the car, at the side of the road more often than not, and then it's easy to just fire the old BJ off and wham a new BJ in.
The trick with doing it with a hammer and chisel with the hub on the car is NOT break the ball joint from it's tapered for in the wishbone until it's unscrewing easily out of the hub.
With the taper still in the wishbine it makes the whole thing a much more robust platform to batter hell out of it.
If you remove the hub from the car and stick it in a vice then Stilsons be your friend.
I use the hammer and chisel solution as I nearly always do them on the car, at the side of the road more often than not, and then it's easy to just fire the old BJ off and wham a new BJ in.
The trick with doing it with a hammer and chisel with the hub on the car is NOT break the ball joint from it's tapered for in the wishbone until it's unscrewing easily out of the hub.
With the taper still in the wishbine it makes the whole thing a much more robust platform to batter hell out of it.
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A number of tool makers seem to do them now.
Sealey SX027 - Lower Ball Joint Socket Peugeot 405/Citroen -- £9.45 ex VAT
Maybe even cheaper from your local tool shop.
www.sealey.co.uk
David
Sealey SX027 - Lower Ball Joint Socket Peugeot 405/Citroen -- £9.45 ex VAT
Maybe even cheaper from your local tool shop.
www.sealey.co.uk
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I have a sealey one and it's been brilliant. I can't ever imagine leaving the hub carrier on the car. I've heard that some b/js were erroneously secured with loctite. Despite the tool,a breaker bar and 2 1/2 foor scaffold bar the bugger wouldn't shift. Sleepy mentioned to heat them up with a blow torch and eventually they give (mind the heat on the wheel bearing though). I sincerely believe that without the tool, I'd not of got the b/j off. A good help is to secure the tool on the b/j stud with a nut and washer!
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A good smack with a hammer and punch will always be more immediate than using a proper tool with just leverage.
Shocking things off is always FTW, which is why impact wrenches work so well.
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