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any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? #1570732 01/29/14 07:35 PM 01/29/14 07:35 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,904 Athens, Greece Pyper70 OP master
Pyper70 OP master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,904 Athens, Greece	I used to have the tool but I let someone borrow it and well...thats the end of that one...Dont feel like spending $55 for a new socket...I am also worried about stripping the threads on the UCA...is there any trick to removing it through years of broken knuckles? Should I be soaking it with Liquid Wrench for a few days before I attempt the task? Should I heat it up with some Mapp Gas to break it loose? Should I whack it with a hammer? Should I give it some Red Bull and cross my fingers that it willfully surrenders on its own? Family owned 1969 Charger R/T DualQuad 440/727/GVO/3.55s

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Pyper70] #1570733 01/29/14 07:44 PM 01/29/14 07:44 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 104,346 Garden Grove, CA OzHemi Penguin-hating Ginger
OzHemi Penguin-hating Ginger Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 104,346 Garden Grove, CA	Just spend the money on a new proper socket for it ,and it makes for an easy job of it. (Easy as it can be that is..) And then just use a Good impact gun or a really long breaker bar, should be all you need. Then reverse again to install the new ball joint.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: OzHemi] #1570734 01/29/14 07:49 PM 01/29/14 07:49 PM
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,874 Ontario, Canada S Stanton Don't question me!
Stanton Don't question me! S Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,874 Ontario, Canada	If the UCA's are off the car, just take them into a local shop and ask them to yank them off. Probably do it for a coffee!

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Stanton] #1570735 01/29/14 08:15 PM 01/29/14 08:15 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 104,346 Garden Grove, CA OzHemi Penguin-hating Ginger
OzHemi Penguin-hating Ginger Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 104,346 Garden Grove, CA	Quote: If the UCA's are off the car, just take them into a local shop and ask them to yank them off. Probably do it for a coffee! I wouldn't think...I could be wrong...but would not think many local shops in Greece would have Mopar ball joint sockets? They would probably just try to press the ball joints out instead.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Pyper70] #1570736 01/29/14 08:17 PM 01/29/14 08:17 PM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 8,677 A Andrewh master
Andrewh master A Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 8,677	not sure what shipping would be, but napa and a few other places sell them cheaper than 55 bucks. I saw that right after I paid like 80 bucks for my snap on one, you could then buy them for 12 bucks I think.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Andrewh] #1570737 01/29/14 08:47 PM 01/29/14 08:47 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,357 Rancho Cordova, California (Sa... hemi71x master
hemi71x master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,357 Rancho Cordova, California (Sa...	Quote: not sure what shipping would be, but napa and a few other places sell them cheaper than 55 bucks. I saw that right after I paid like 80 bucks for my snap on one, you could then buy them for 12 bucks I think. If you can find a Mopar ball joint socket anywhere,from anyone, for $12.00, buy every one that you can get, sell them, and make a tremendous profit. When were they ever 12 bucks, on this planet? RF-4C Phantom 69-370 Zweibrucken, Germany

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: hemi71x] #1570738 01/29/14 08:50 PM 01/29/14 08:50 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,936 Grand Prairie,Texas stumpy I Win
stumpy I Win Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,936 Grand Prairie,Texas	Pipe wrench works when you have nothing else.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: hemi71x] #1570739 01/29/14 09:11 PM 01/29/14 09:11 PM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 8,677 A Andrewh master
Andrewh master A Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 8,677	Quote: Quote: not sure what shipping would be, but napa and a few other places sell them cheaper than 55 bucks. I saw that right after I paid like 80 bucks for my snap on one, you could then buy them for 12 bucks I think. If you can find a Mopar ball joint socket anywhere,from anyone, for $12.00, buy every one that you can get, sell them, and make a tremendous profit. When were they ever 12 bucks, on this planet? trust me they were. must have been 5 or 6 years ago now. maybe a little more. I just remember someone even on this board talking about them, and me kicking my self for spending so much on one not that long before that. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sxt-10213 ok 16 bucks.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Andrewh] #1570740 01/29/14 09:28 PM 01/29/14 09:28 PM
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 452 new york usa P pattyboy 572 mopar
pattyboy 572 mopar P Joined: May 2008 Posts: 452 new york usa	14.30 pro shop price + ship 4.95 still great price....just ordered 2...pat NOTE...I believe there are three sizes a b c bodies also difference in years order correct one.... Last edited by pattyboy 572; 01/29/14 09:37 PM.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: pattyboy 572] #1570741 01/29/14 09:34 PM 01/29/14 09:34 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,904 Athens, Greece Pyper70 OP master
Pyper70 OP master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,904 Athens, Greece	prices sure have come down...I might as well buy one of those then....I mean...I have to remove it...but I also have to crank it back in right....I sure hope those threads don't strip out....it happened to my 70 Charger and it was FUN looking for decent UCA's Thanks fellas Family owned 1969 Charger R/T DualQuad 440/727/GVO/3.55s

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Andrewh] #1570742 01/29/14 09:37 PM 01/29/14 09:37 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,357 Rancho Cordova, California (Sa... hemi71x master
hemi71x master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,357 Rancho Cordova, California (Sa...	Quote: Quote: Quote: not sure what shipping would be, but napa and a few other places sell them cheaper than 55 bucks. I saw that right after I paid like 80 bucks for my snap on one, you could then buy them for 12 bucks I think. If you can find a Mopar ball joint socket anywhere,from anyone, for $12.00, buy every one that you can get, sell them, and make a tremendous profit. When were they ever 12 bucks, on this planet? trust me they were. must have been 5 or 6 years ago now. maybe a little more. I just remember someone even on this board talking about them, and me kicking my self for spending so much on one not that long before that. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sxt-10213 ok 16 bucks. Wow, ok, but is that Summit one, for the small ball joint A body cars, or large ball joint A, B, E, body cars. RF-4C Phantom 69-370 Zweibrucken, Germany

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: hemi71x] #1570743 01/29/14 09:41 PM 01/29/14 09:41 PM
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 452 new york usa P pattyboy 572 mopar
pattyboy 572 mopar P Joined: May 2008 Posts: 452 new york usa	B body 1.925/ 1 59/64.... this site list all three http://www.tooltopia.com/search.aspx?find=ball+joint+socket A body socket size http://www.americanmuscle.biz/23456_A_Body_Upper_Ball_Joint_Socket_p/23456.htm Last edited by pattyboy 572; 01/29/14 09:47 PM.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Pyper70] #1570744 01/29/14 09:41 PM 01/29/14 09:41 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 36,040 Lincoln Nebraska R RapidRobert Circle Track
RapidRobert Circle Track R Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 36,040 Lincoln Nebraska	several days worth of apps of kroil or pb blaster never hurts. As Stump said if you can get a pipe wrench on there & keep it square it'll work most of the time. DEFINITELY take em off before you take the UCA itself out. If the socket is cheap & you ain't in no rush to order it then as you know having the proper tool is always the better way live every 24 hour block of time like it's your last day on earth

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: RapidRobert] #1570745 01/30/14 12:20 PM 01/30/14 12:20 PM
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,336 South-Central (Sebring), FL Commando1 master
Commando1 master Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,336 South-Central (Sebring), FL	Buy the damn tool. Sell it on ebay later.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Commando1] #1570746 01/30/14 02:55 PM 01/30/14 02:55 PM
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,874 Ontario, Canada S Stanton Don't question me!
Stanton Don't question me! S Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,874 Ontario, Canada	C'mon, what man buys a tool and then sells it ?!?!?!

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Commando1] #1570747 01/30/14 02:57 PM 01/30/14 02:57 PM
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 589 Fortworth TX M mod5v mopar
mod5v mopar M Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 589 Fortworth TX	I couldn't get them out on my 84 truck even with the socket. So I do have a mig welder. I welded a short piece of scrap 2" tube to one and the heat of welding loosened it up enough to spin out with a pipe wrench took the one I had out flipped it over and welded it to the outer side and it came out easy to. Threads were fine and quite clean. Have some water handy as the grease in the old ball joint tends to catch on fire!

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Commando1] #1570748 01/30/14 03:27 PM 01/30/14 03:27 PM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 1,023 pa. D dan9 super stock
dan9 super stock D Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 1,023 pa.	Or do what someone did when i got mine. They bought it, used it and returned it.

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: dan9] #1570749 01/30/14 06:42 PM 01/30/14 06:42 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,931 P Paul_Fancsali master
Paul_Fancsali master P Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,931	No matter how careful you are you will probably strip the threads on roughly 70% of the ones I have seen done. Get a mig welder and just tack them in solves the problem

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Paul_Fancsali] #1570750 01/30/14 07:41 PM 01/30/14 07:41 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,904 Athens, Greece Pyper70 OP master
Pyper70 OP master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,904 Athens, Greece	Went ahead and ordered the socket...I'll use it....probably keep it as you never know when you need one....I will clean the UCA's tomorrow and put in some liquid wrench for a few days until the socket arrives...Hopefully its not part of the 70% Family owned 1969 Charger R/T DualQuad 440/727/GVO/3.55s

Re: any trick to removing Ball Joints from UCA's? [Re: Pyper70] #1570751 01/30/14 07:44 PM 01/30/14 07:44 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,936 Grand Prairie,Texas stumpy I Win
stumpy I Win Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,936 Grand Prairie,Texas	Leave the control arms on the car to remove the ball joints or you could end up twisting them out of shape.

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