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- Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:50 am #204713 Hey,

The ball joint on the front LCA on my coupe is turning as I tighten it. as far as I know this isnt a symptom of it being ruined, but does anyone have any tricks to stop it turning while I tighten the castle nut? dosent seem to be anything to grip??

[Ajax1989]

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:32 pm #204734 vise grips is what i use

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:07 pm #204744 what do you grip?? I dont have enough threaded bolt below the castle nut to grip, above the lca the joint has a rubber gaiter on which i really dont want to split gripping that...

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:16 pm #204746 Put a jack underneath the ball joint on the wishbone, and jack it up until its almost lifting the car off the axle stands, that should give it enough force to grip so you can get it tightened up.

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:37 pm #204748 Like this?

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:44 pm #204750 Yeah and is that fails then you'll need to clean the thread up like a bugger and get some copper ease on it
Edit: an impact gun is always helpful as well hehe, would need to rotate the jack to the side though to get a gun in.

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:55 pm #204753 i gun it on just so it gets sucked up into the lca and then torque

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:58 pm #204755 I wish.... this is all with my tool kit (all manual unfortunately). Ill be tryin this tonight

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:32 pm #204790 hmm, Ive lifted the car and lowered it onto a axle stand as it is in the above picture. The joint turns as freely as before? it turns very easily.....

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:42 pm #204806

hmm, Ive lifted the car and lowered it onto a axle stand as it is in the above picture. The joint turns as freely as before? it turns very easily.....

it might be time to replace them.
they are 'pressed in' and should not turn at all.

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- Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:07 pm #204810

hmm, Ive lifted the car and lowered it onto a axle stand as it is in the above picture. The joint turns as freely as before? it turns very easily.....

it might be time to replace them.
they are 'pressed in' and should not turn at all.

x2 on that.
It aint that had to replace anyways, and its always a good idea.

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http://civic-eg.com/viewtopic.php?t=14912

[suspendedHatch]

- Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:32 pm #204903 If that happens then your threads are fucked up and you'll have to repair them or replace the joint. This is VERY common on those bolts that take a cotter pin because they have two holes drilled through them. If you remove them wrong, like by using a two arm puller, you'll squish the weaker bottom end of the bolt in and F up the threads.

For future reference, to pop the ball joint properly, you get a crowbar and jam it in the gab between the small overhang of the ball joint mount and the LCA. Then smack it with a BFH. Or sometimes you can simply jack the LCA up which increases the gab, put the crow bar in there, then drop the LCA quickly.

[Ajax1989]

- Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:40 pm #204908

If you remove them wrong, like by using a two arm puller

is this what your talking about??


if so these are bad to use??

- Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:12 pm #204920

If you remove them wrong, like by using a two arm puller

is this what your talking about??


if so these are bad to use??

Those suck!!!
They ripped my boot last time.
I just hammer the sides a coulpe of times ad then use a crowbar

My build Thread
http://civic-eg.com/viewtopic.php?t=14912

[Ajax1989]

- Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:15 pm #204922 oh shit, i didnt know they ripped the boot..
well last time i used it the dudes boot's were already torn, so that prob why i didnt know they tore the boots...

but it worked awesome when i used it, a couple blows with a hammer and bam