Okay, so this is a ball joint press kit and I rented it from Where did I go? Oh auto zone? I rented it from auto zone They they require that you put a hundred dollar deposit on it and if you don't return it you basically Own it for a hundred bucks, but I'm gonna return it get my deposit back But as you can see there's a series of plates and tubes and then a giant C clamp I'm gonna stack these plates and tubes up on the on the top of that ball joint and then turn the C clamp and Press the ball joint out Okay, so I've put the ball Kit on and as you can see There's a plate and it's pressing up against the bottom of the ball joint. This is the top of the axle This is a tube and this is another plate and then when I turn this handle Which is actually this handle which is attached to the screw what this does is it closes the it closes the distance between Between the top and the bottom and that actually presses because of the way the plates are stacked it presses that ball joint Up and out of the hole so I'm gonna apply some pressure here and see if this works Okay, so I've put the ball Kit on and as you can see There's a plate and it's pressing up against the bottom of the ball joint. This is the top of the axle This is a tube and this is another plate and then when I turn this handle Which is actually this handle which is attached to the screw what this does is it closes the it closes the distance between Between the top and the bottom and that actually presses because of the way the plates are stacked it presses that ball joint Up and out of the hole so I'm gonna apply some pressure here and see if this works. Okay So that worked just fine Not any problems. That's the ball joint That's the top of the axle and now I can And now I can set up for that second ball joint just covered by grime. You can see it right there It's on the top of that That bottom half of that axle and that bottom ball joint. I'll set up another stack and we'll extract that Okay, so I put the clamp on The thing you should know is there used to be a zirke fitting on the top of that on the top of that bottom Ball joint and I've removed the zirke fitting so that I can basically crank the the end of that screw all the way down to the top of the ball joint and then I've got a tube underneath and an adapter and in that bottom Shank of that ball joint is passing through the holes in the In the adapter and the bottom of the C clamp so when I apply pressure up here when I turn this thing It should press the bottom it should press that bottom ball joint out of the Out of the lower axle so so just so we have this straight the ball joint on the bottom gets pressed out the bottom the ball joint on the top It's pressed out the top All right, so it worked I pressed it through the bottom and man I was using a cheater bar and It really likes to let go in a hurry. I mean it it was resistant I was probably putting about a hundred hundred fifty pounds of pressure on it and all of a sudden bang and I just popped right out It didn't pop all the way out. I still had to give it a couple more turns to get it to press out the rest of the way But it was in there good, but now it's out. I'll disassemble it and then and then I will clean up the lower and the upper Spots on the axles so that there's no grime of grit in there when I when I put the new ball joints in All right, so that's a lower ball joint I've cleaned up and wire brushed these so that they're nice and clean and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna press it back in Like this. I'm gonna press it up into the bottom So got a stacks of plates set it up, but should take about three minutes Okay, I've set it up Now when I this is the the bottom ball joint. This is a tube and this is a plate and this is the bottom of the C clamp Comes all the way up around at the top another plate up here and when I tighten it it'll push that ball joint up in a position So I'm gonna give it the beans and See what happens Okay, as you can see It's fully seated and I'm a little out of breath and I had to make some small adjustments the C clamp isn't big enough So I had to use a piece of scrap steel in order to be able to fit the whole whole mess in there, but I had to take a top plate off and get a piece of scrap steel and But as you can see that works just fine and now the lower ball the lower bearing is in place Now we can focus on the upper bearing All right, the top one's finally pressed in It's a little more awkward because the length of the of the C clamp Where's that C clamp? It barely fit in there, but it did fit after a little bit of fiddling and I was able to clamp it down and eventually Fully seat the upper ball joint. So now our upper and lower ball joints are fully seated all sets left is to Put the boots on and the zerk fitting on zerk fitting on and then Reassemble everything steering knuckle brake caliper Tyrod Tiger oh and wheel bearing hub anyways I'm gonna fast forward a little bit here and Try to get everything More assembled before I voice or talk it again Okay, it took a while to figure this out But if you look at the steering knuckle There's a castle nut that goes on right Let's see where I right here and there's a cotter pin that will go through it and on the bottom There's also another big nut on the bottom ball joint and you're supposed to spin that but the problem is that At first when I was spinning that nut it would spin the shaft of the ball joint and there's no way to stop it from spinning What I discovered is that in order to keep those shafts For the upper and lower ball joint from spinning when you turn the nuts on them to tighten them down to 75 and 80 pounds respectively They have to be seated pretty well in the Stereo knuckle and the way that you do that as you lift it up and then you hit it really hard on the bottom a couple of times With that three pound sledgehammer and then that will seat it and then you'll be able to tighten those nuts down without any problems I'm about to go through the process now All right, so we got everything put together on the truck got the Break this can break caliper put on the axles put in the axel nut put on the end of that steering rod attached and we got the wheel put on I figured you didn't want to see that the hardest part was getting most of the parts off and then using the the press to actually press those joints ball joints out but Just in case you wanted to see it. I did have another camera going and that one has the basically it's a time lapse So from where we left off here's the time lapse to the final assembly and put in the tire on hope you enjoy You You