 Good morning, YouTube Let's put some ball joints in this truck That's first thing we're gonna do on this. We're gonna take this caliper off and move it over here out of the way so then I can Go ahead and take this whole unit off so I can work on the busted the bust of ball joints and but then we've got to get the The tie rod end off, which is not really a big deal after 10 this morning Or parts Well, they've got one part in but the other part in at 1230 we got they got the lower ball joint in But the upper won't be until 1230. So I don't know what you're seeing here And I'll be back monkey fixed me up. We're yet You ain't some skin off my damn thumb. I was scary go get my gloves and I thought well, I'll get these two bolts first Well, that hurts. All right, so Anyway, like I was saying Then we got to get the tie rod end off of there brake line looks to be okay. So I'm not gonna crack it loose That's why I'm just taking the caliper off Not too bad the bottom ball joints 25 bucks the top one's 70 So come in worse though. She's okay. That's the main thing Caliper bolts should come off trucks just getting tired, you know, I mean except for what I've put on Now I may have to wire it up We're gonna pull these pads out So they'll be out of our way I'll set them aside for the ones we just put on the other day Last week, let's take this ball joint off right here So we got to take this cutter pin out take that nut off. That's called a castle nut And then we're gonna this right here. We're gonna hit it with a hammer We're gonna hit it with this little ball peen hammer here right there We're gonna hit it real hard and that should drop down out of there Sorry about their compressor running it should shut off here in a minute. I fell underneath the jack Great you guys can't see shit All right, we're gonna whack that right there and that should drop down Give it a couple of wax Don't hit that bolt if you can help it. Usually I put the nut in there But since it fell underneath the jack, I can't get it. What's called a tuning fork Or ball joint room. I find that a lot of times it screws them up So I'm gonna hit this knuckle because you don't want to you don't want to hit that piece so, all right Let's get this up On the bed of the truck. Got you up here in the bed of the truck now. This one's the same way Okay, take that pin out same way take that nut off and Smack that down there and that that'll drop out. All right guys Now let's see if I can get you knock knock the camera off here. I got the nut off. That's called a castle nut See it kind of looks like the top of a castle Now this you can hit here Because you we're not gonna reuse this but the problem is if it don't start going Beat it around here, too Because if that peens over then you won't get it off, but I think we'll be right on this one Oh, this whole assembly here is called the steering knuckle So let's go ahead and take these bolts out and get that off of there. The other part of this is on the lower a-frame Rapper it's on the a-frame All right, so we got that job okay now We've got to get this one out and To do that we've got there's two bolts there and those two bolts there and this should slide out of here Hi guys, so we got this cute little guy here. He's my three-eighths inch Just a cheap one Central pneumatic and these are 12 millimeter monkeys back here behind me watching me Do surgery on her vehicle and another vehicle on past of course as always so the suffer should just You may need to persuade it, but they can be finicky, but these squeeze together Can you guys see yeah these squeeze together right here? So sometimes you may have to I'm squeeze it and there you go That's the other part of the upper so Four bolts here and then two on the back side of it, but I've got to move this jack So let me get this out of the way. I'll show you how to take that off and then we'll be ready for new parts Sorry guys. I forgot to turn you back on I've got these two nuts off I should be able to whack that with a hammer. Gotta put this back together as you've seen it kind of came down But that's because of the pressure on the spring But that's no big deal So you can see done some grinding there. So I do believe these are Grade 8 case-hardened bolts. I'm not sure what we're gonna do about that Now this is all I can do for now. So I'll get back you with you as soon as we get the parts We have got our new parts here. We've got the new upper ball joint and they have What you call grease zirts or grease fitting so I can grease these As you can see the old ones didn't They didn't have a place where you can grease them. So Once the grease goes away, you're done. It came with new bolts New cast will not get the new grease dirt The same way with this one This is the lower ball joint with the steering knuckle on it and it also has a place for the grease sir Which is where the hell is it? It's just a bolt Anyway, it does have a grease sir with it I think it's on the box And it goes right there so you can grease them And this one didn't now this one This is how they go like this so This one will go down in there, but first that's the reason why I took this one off This didn't actually have to come off, but Look right in there. This has to be pounded out now once this is down On there I'll have to see if I'm going to have enough threads coming up through if not I'll have to put flat washers on this because the only way you can get this piece here Is to buy the whole The whole lower control arm So I may have to heat this around here. I don't know, but I'll show you how to get that out and then we got to Drive this part out. So that's what we've got there and also It came with new bolts new nuts, of course new cast castle nut and the cotter pin so Looks like all I'm going to need to do is find my Grease sir for that And another cotter pin which I have so But we got a deal on this stuff it should have been One was 69 99 and one was 24 24 And we got it all for 71 dollars the guy got us a break because we're always going in there So he did good with these were bought in advanced at advance So what we got to do is we got to get this piece knocked out and then we can start Putting everything together. I like to set it all out and make sure we've got everything so And I'll make sure I got enough grease in my gun. If not, I'll have to pack it. So let me get that taken care of and We'll go ahead and we'll get this knocked out. Like I said, we may have to heat it but Uh, we might not we just have to see so now let's see if we can Beat this out of there. Like I said, I may have to pop that rubber off there and heat this around there I don't know. Let's see Looks like it's moving So I'm trying to get that dead center there in that circle and there it is Popped it right out of there. There's what's left So then this piece We'll go in there like that The castle nut will go on there. So well, you needed that like a washer. Yeah, I don't know I don't know yet, huh Maybe See that right there. Yeah Okay, so That's what that does So If I do need one it'll probably just be one Because see this should be straight across here as you can see it's angled down Should be straight across So Is that from hitting the the pavement? Yeah, that's from grinding 800 feet down the road like that Just like putting it on a grinder So we'll see what we can do with that Well, we're not paying $225 for a new a lower a-frame So All right, I'll be back with you If I didn't know that other piece was going to come out there so easy. I wouldn't have pulled the whole thing off but I thought I was going to have some problems with it. So what we're going to do So we're going to put these bolts Back up in there just like that and those two coming down through should go in the bottom So what we're going to do is jack this back up into position And hope nothing goes wrong So let's get her jacked up here and you want to leave room for them bolts to come down through This should go up together once I start jacking this up Up and they're down through. Okay. You guys can't see what I'm doing. Can you? Those there you don't want to strip these out because they they don't come out so Or they won't come out very easy so Always start them by hand Make sure we've got enough room there And we're going to tighten them up With a big wrench and that section is done now. Let's let this down We've got to get it out of our way go slowly I'll get you in here a little closer All right, so the other one's going to go right in there Let's go get it because when we put this on We're going to put the steering knuckle up into the top one. I'm going to start a bolt or start a knot And then we're going to jack this right up into place. Okay All right now No, I didn't forget to put that grease dirt in I'm just going to do it After I get this in there that way if I got a tap on this and I miss I'm not going to hit the grease dirt Let's tap her in So remember we had to finagle it to get it to come out so We're going to drop our bolts down in Just like that now i'm going to start The nuts on Now they're only going to go so far. These are lock nuts I'll try to show this to you the best I can where you at here See one ends flat and one ends got a bevel on it like right here There's a bevel So it's going to go up Like this Okay, so you're only going to you can't you won't be able to screw it on Because they don't have lock washers. They got lock nuts So you won't be able to screw it all the way on by hand And I do believe these are 12 millimeter. I guess when I took them off with Let me see here. Yeah They should be the same as These may be 13s because They're aftermarket. Okay, so I got to get A 13 wrench and a 13 socket. Here we go on these is the preference Let's put the uh the steering knuckle unit Okay, guys She had to run back up the parts store just right up the road um About a mile and a half two miles Uh, they forgot to add that grease or they sent me the plug Well, it's not their fault, but it had the plug in there a lot of guys will just Grease them and then plug them But I like to have that in there And okay, let's go ahead and put this on This is going to go Like this down the side there Hammer you may want to give a little tap came with two new bolts But I'm going to use the old ones because it's still got some locked height on there. I don't have any But also see this one's got like a collar on it See that collar right there and this one don't So I like to have that collar Right up against there and I don't like using washers on something like this So I'm just going to go ahead and Put these back in here Get them started there And we'll have our steering knuckle on there Gotta make sure that those are tight because we use them old bolts And you know threads will stretch I know what a lot of guys are going to say Hey, you need to use the new ones. Well, I don't like Not having a collar on there and I'm not going to put a washer on those I don't like going that on something as pertinent As this you going monkey? Love you. He thinks he's going somewhere Hang on. I'll be back Okay Bruno was out there waiting by the truck. He wanted to go All right, so I can fix these I'm going to use these are the abs wires. Let me zoom in on you for you there if I can These are the abs wires Some of them are kind of like real real tiny, but these will work. I've got these um heat shrink butt connectors And you put them on for those of you that don't know once you get them crimped you heat these ends And they shrink around the cable Makes them water tight. All right, so now Oh, I love you too. Bye So we're gonna go out and we're gonna put this in I think what I said outside was I was going to put the top in and start the boat um The easier way to do it is put the bottom in start the boat instead of trying to hold that up and because that is pretty heavy Especially when you have no strength like me um So I'm going to put the bottom in and then we'll just jack it right up until the top goes right into that one there What we're going to do is we're going to take that part there And we're going to put it in this hole here. Hopefully you can see it. I got you backed out far as away as I can And you start that in there and then you can move this around where you need to move it And then we're just going to jack this right up in to position here Okay from here to there and that's going to go in there. All right So let's go ahead and do that Be careful keep your hands out of the way of everything that hurt goes And it is starting in there Just like that and when you see the truck itself start to raise That's when you know you've went enough Okay Now let's go ahead We're going to put our castle nut On this one here, but anyway the castle nut will go on there See if I can get you down here a little bit You can't see it's back up in here, but go ahead and screw that on as tight as you can get it now Leave your pressure on there because if you don't it'll drop the bottom a-frame out You guys see what I did bring that back around through there No matter how many times you do this you can make mistakes But at least we didn't get it all put back together right and these wires here These two wires here to these ones. Okay, so let's get this back up in here things looking good down here Now we can jack it up into position. Let me bring you around here so you guys can see maybe All right. I'm gonna lower this down one more time all right So you guys can see where that's going to go All right in the middle of your screen there. Okay, and you keep going till you see the truck Just start to raise watch your frame too And once the truck starts to raise You went high enough and there it is. I'm high enough Okay, put our castle nut on I'll see a lot of guys on something like this There's enough room They'll go ahead and put that top top ball joint in slide this back into position but Sometimes it's a little harder that way. I'm gonna go ahead and tighten that up And I'm going to put the bottom one tighten it up. We'll just it's just putting it back together and we'll grease it This piece here This is your tie rod in Hang on a second. I'll show you I'll get you down here where you can see All right, that's your tie rod in And it's going to go right Into position there. Okay. Now as you can see that's original too. There's no grease fitting on that either It feels pretty good feel snug See if that thing would have went bad. I could have fixed it down on the road But I couldn't have fixed it last night anyway because they didn't have the parts till today. So All right, I've got a memory card blinking. All right guys. Um, I'm gonna go ahead And I'm going to put this nut on Which is another castle nut See looks like a castle And then I'm going to tighten All them up Then we'll put the caliper back on I've got it Everything all buttoned up We've got the brake pads back on it's kind of wanting to show you how these things work Um Just heat them up. You can use a heat gun You can use a regular lighter See they're shrinking right right up. Now. I don't know if these will go clear around the wire or not But I'm going to tape them up anyhow We'll secure them there. I've already turned the wheel all the way So they're not going to stretch. There's all you do with them and then tape them up. It's good to go as you can see I've got my grease fitting And there and I've got it pointed pointed that way because I don't want to point out this way Because I don't want to have to pull the tire off every time I grease that thing About pressure on it on the jack. So Take grease easier and I've been having problems with this thing priming. There we go For some reason now these I'm only going to go Until I see this boot down here. I know you can't see it But when you see your rubber boot starting to fill up And it seems like it's a little tight. That's good enough a lot of guys They like to take them until grease comes out. I don't like that Used to be that way, but any more you don't have to do it that way Do the same thing to the bottom. We're going to put the wheel on it after we do our final checks Make sure everything's taken. All right, turn the home stretch. Let's get this wheel on here Lost one just had them all here a second ago I hope you guys learned something. I tried to do it as in-depth as possible But it's kind of hard to You know run the camera At the same time you're doing this because you got to move around a lot And I just had all five of them You got to move around a lot and I've only got two hands, you know, so It was right beside me the whole damn time All right, let's get these tightened up Noise alert air compressor kicked on feels good. I wore me out today. All right, let's set it down Pretty sure we're gonna need air in that tire Yes, yeah, it takes 44. I'm gonna run it up to About 40 like a little softer ride. I'll make sure the other side's 42 all back together and good go I hope this has helped somebody she said The steering wheel felt funny like there wasn't nothing there and about five seconds later it dropped. So Uh 65 miles an hour. That's not good. So If something just don't feel right you guys check it out, but I know she didn't have time This was not her fault It just the parts get old, you know going over bumps and speed bumps and railroad tracks all its life for 461,000 miles Not bad. So We got to do the other side I'll save you from from that. I'm not going to do it today but They're original too. So Um, how's it does it? So anyway, get them done get alignment done Get some tires on it and drive it a little longer. So Anyway guys, thanks for watching Monkey, she's okay Yeah, it wasn't her fault. She felt bad. She's ready to cry last night seeing her truck Up on a rollback and that's it's never been on a rollback before so I said, sorry daddy fix it for you. So we got her going so Not too bad. We got a deal on the parts. They were 71 dollars and 150 dollar tow So which tow that wasn't too bad considering what they had to do to get it up on Up on the rollback because you you know They they couldn't tow it with a tow truck Because there's no wheel on this side and then uh, so they had to drag it up on and it was real careful Not to bend anything else up. So so that was pretty good. So Anyway guys again, thanks for watching I'll chat it you guys soon and uh, have a great week. So Shea bearer the myth man the legend Any old truck? We're gone for now. Bye. Bye guys. Take care