300ex / Removing Ball Joints From Knuckles

["BLAHH"300!!]

is there a quick fix for removing my ball joints?
i need to get the knuckle off so i can change my a-arms.

i've beat on it for a while, don't want to hurt anything...

[Scott400EX]

get a pickle fork from autozone looks kinda like a tuning fork but its smaller on the forked end and drive it between the balljoint and spindle and it should pop right off.

[tants]

this should help.....

http://www.exriders.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13490

["BLAHH"300!!]

huhu...

is that really what it's called:p

[Doibugu2]

Originally posted by "BLAHH"300!!
huhu...

is that really what it's called:p

Yea, he is not kidding.

But just take a big wreaking bar, stick it in there and hit it with a hammer. It will come off.

Grow some muscles, will ya.

[TRX_Thumper]

dont use a pickle fork that will destroy the ball joints...

[beerock]

when is someone gonna put ommy ball joint post in the FAQ section?

Im not doggin leo, but That ball joint removal thread just confuses everyone.

heres tommy's link
http://www.exriders.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37182&highlight=ball+joint

and here the pic I made to get you through the process.
It worked for tommy and it works for me.

http://www.exriders.com/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=347178

those forks are the wrong way to remove the ball joints....

[beerock]

Originally posted by Doibugu2
Yea, he is not kidding.

But just take a big wreaking bar, stick it in there and hit it with a hammer. It will come off.

Grow some muscles, will ya.
Hitting the spindles with a hammer is a very bad idea ESPECIALLY since there aluminum.

No force is needed to take them out. (just some muscle on the nuts.

[TRX_Thumper]

uh beerock your instructions by the picture dont seem to make sense lol :huh

[toby400ex]

he can hit his spindels, on the 300ex the spindels are steel, unless im confused from what everyone else says. But im pretty sure they are, i used a pickle fork on mine and ruined all the ball joint boots.:rolleyes:

["BLAHH"300!!]

i believe they are steel too..

pickle fork....
..i see how that could mess em up,

beerocks way....
...i flushed the nuts on each post, found a socket that fits in there perfect, and went at it, got tighter and tighter, then i couldn't turn it anymore, (i had to put a vicegrip on on so it wouldn't turn,)

anymore tips...i'm ganna go try some more later today.

[tprender]

On the pic that beerock posted hit where the red dots are 1 or 2 times with a hammer after you have taken the nuts off. The ball joints will then fall out. A mechanic showed this to me at the shop one day and I have been doing this for the past 5 or more years to take them apart.

["BLAHH"300!!]

man i tapped lightly, and said f-kit, and knocked the sh1t out of em'....and they fell out....i had to hit em' on the bolts'.
i screwed a nut on the end a little, then hit it as hard as i could.
then i couldn't get the nut loose becouse the post was spinning.
so i stuck a vicegrip between the boots, and the knuckle and got it off. did this on all 4 of them...on the very last one i put the vice in the wrong apot and greese came out,

does this mean i busted my boot? the rubber is NOT torn,
when the vice pressed real heard it squirted greese out...

i don't care really, i got my new ones on,

i need some tie-rods now....