BALL JOINT REMOVAL

funbug Seriously Crusin Dubber

135 posts · joined May 2006 · 22 Feb 2010, 9:37 pm

#763880

How do you remove the ball joints from the control arms on a 1975 Super Beetle? There doesn't seem to be enough lip on the bottom where it fits into the control arm to put it into a press plus the shape of the control arm does not help at all.

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 23 Feb 2010, 7:34 am

#763921

Hi

They are not tapered, so give them a soak with WD40 etc and they will slide out.

Steve

funbug Seriously Crusin Dubber

135 posts · joined May 2006 · 23 Feb 2010, 9:11 pm

#764012

1303Steve wrote:Hi

They are not tapered, so give them a soak with WD40 etc and they will slide out.

Steve

Thanks Steve. My friend machined a collar that just cleared the ball joint's bottom end and anchored onto the wall of the housing. He then managed to remove it with a press.

bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 23 Feb 2010, 9:50 pm

#764029

haha, it can be fun sometimes.

I got mine pressed out at Pedders cause i didn't have access to one. The ball joint that got pressed out managed to get airborn and smashed through their louvered windows haha.

Apparently it was rediculously firm in the arm.

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