Civic EG

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??

vise grips is what i use

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...

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.

Like this?

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.

i gun it on just so it gets sucked up into the lca and then torque

I wish.... this is all with my tool kit (all manual unfortunately). Ill be tryin this tonight

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.....

ANDYC wrote: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.

d-mon wrote:

ANDYC wrote: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.

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.

suspendedHatch wrote: 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??

94_jdm_ferio wrote:

suspendedHatch wrote: 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

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