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N4W Card Holder NISSAN4WHEELER  |
I was wanting to swap out my steering knuckle tonight and I hit a snag. the knuckle is on there good, I have removed all nuts I can find(one on top and one on bottom), is there a trick or is this a "pound with hammer thing". I just dont want to break anything so i someone can help me out, THX
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NISSAN4WHEELER |
Try hitting the spot where the ball joint bolts go through from the side with the BFH. Whack it good. A bottle jack pushing up on the lower bolt might help too.
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Moderator When Taste & Skill Just Aren't Needed NISSAN4WHEELER  |
On a dana axle, both balljoints face up, so a jack underneath the lower doesn't do anything. I always try and leave one of the nuts on (usually on the lower balljoint), but loose. then hammer the crap out of the top of the top balljoint. Guaranteed you mess up the threads, but I've found if I'm pulling the knuckle, I usually need new balljoints anyway. usually takes 3-5 hits with a 5lbs hand sledge.
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Administrator N4W Card Holder Ultimate N4Wheeler  |
Plan on new balljoints too. Those will need to be pressed in. On a D44, a special socket is needed to torque down the threaded sleeve that slides over the upper balljoint. Not sure how a D30 is set up.
 1998 Frontier 4x4, 2002 Xterra 4x4, and Z28 street rocket Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven - Kerouac |
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NISSAN4WHEELER |
I must have been looking at the wrong bolts here then http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i135/Rmarkham2/jeep/jeep4.jpg -- If I were a medical man I would prescribe a vacation for any patient who thought their work important. |
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Off-Road Warrior |
What drip said.
I have a balljoint press to put the new balljoints into the new knuckle. Brent 1972 K5 Blazer  |
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Moderator When Taste & Skill Just Aren't Needed NISSAN4WHEELER |
Compared to a normal d44, thats upside down. I don't know if some axles come like that, or if someone is running the inner C and knuckle upside down for some reason, but a d44 has both nuts on top.
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N4W Card Holder NISSAN4WHEELER |
well my Ball joints have to be pressed upwards, the lower one is shot, upper is ok but while I have it this far apart I will just replace it. Borrowed a tool from auto zone and its not getting them out, so I may need to borrow your tool reddog. I will let you know later on in the day.
EDIT: DRIP IS RIGHT, AFTER LOOKING AT THE NEW PARTS, IT NEEDS TO GO DOWN, THX DRIP Edit: lower and upper Ball joint is out, thx again -Mr. Goat- One way to fix a jeep is to shoot the driver |
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Both set ups are out there in the jeep world... "... the �older� style that have small holes in them into which the ball joint studs are pressed. Another way of describing it, is that the ball joints point �up�, where the body of the ball joint is pressed into the knuckle, and the studs point up and go through the knuckle yoke. CJs, Scouts, Pickup trucks, Full-size Jeeps, and just about every Dana44 front axle has these yokes. However, XJ,YJ,MY,TJ, and ZJ models Jeeps do not � they have the knuckle yokes that hold the ball joint, with the ball joint pointing �down�" Here's the pireate thread that talks about it. -- If I were a medical man I would prescribe a vacation for any patient who thought their work important. |
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N4W Card Holder NISSAN4WHEELER |
What I need now is a good way to put the ball joints back in with out messing them up.
-Mr. Goat- One way to fix a jeep is to shoot the driver |
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Off-Road Warrior |
Balljoint press. It's the only way to do it right.
You can borrow mine or you can go to HF and buy one for $30. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=38335 You may be able to "rent" one from autozone/checker too. All balljoints press out downwards, otherwise the weight of the truck would try to press them out. Brent 1972 K5 Blazer |
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N4W Card Holder Off-Road Warrior  |
You have too much free time...  ---------------------------------------------------------  04 SAS Frontier, 8" Lift Total, 35x12.5x15 MT's with Staun Internal Beadlockers, Calmini Crawler Gears, ARB Front & Rear Air Lockers. |
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NISSAN4WHEELER |
It took like a whole minute to google "Jeep Cherokee Dana front axle ball joint" and copy/paste that paragraph. I was really looking to see whether Robert GOAT'd his axle or it might have come that way from the factory.
-- If I were a medical man I would prescribe a vacation for any patient who thought their work important. |
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N4W Card Holder Off-Road Warrior |
Lets see, you were posting at 9 p.m. last night and again now at 9 a.m. Doesn't anyone work anymore? I know, look who's talking, most of my posts are during the day while I am at work.
Sorry to postjack, so Robert, how's it going? --------------------------------------------------------- 04 SAS Frontier, 8" Lift Total, 35x12.5x15 MT's with Staun Internal Beadlockers, Calmini Crawler Gears, ARB Front & Rear Air Lockers. |
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Administrator N4W Card Holder Ultimate N4Wheeler |
Good thing I don't post from work.
ER....UH.... 1998 Frontier 4x4, 2002 Xterra 4x4, and Z28 street rocket Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven - Kerouac |
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