Suspension Ball joints, arghh

[johnandkatrina]

Any advice changing these would be great, thought I'd change them today and even with a 10 ton press I can't get the dam things out.
Then the wife decided she wants to go camping now the sun has finnaly come out, so to tried just to put it all back together and now I can't get torsion bar/ beam re assembled
Is there any trick to these

 

[johnandkatrina]

Still struggling to rebuild the front suspension, any ideas please

I can't get the bar back into the front beam

 

[Bwuttonmoon]

Do you mean the leaves? It was a real headache on mine and I had the beam out. I tied a cable tie around the end of the leaves to try hold them together a little then wriggled and jiggled them until they finally went through. It sounds a toughy with the beam in situ tho. Somebody must know a trick to this.

 

[Mechanoid]

I think he means putting the suspension arms back onto the beam.

I'm guessing that you can't get the top arm back on as the lower one is usually easy. The only way you can get the top arm on is to remove the upper bump stop rubber. This will allow the upper arm to take the load off of the torsion spring. It only just clears the bump stop bracket enough to enable removal/replacement.

 

[johnandkatrina]

I think he means putting the suspension arms back onto the beam.

I'm guessing that you can't get the top arm back on as the lower one is usually easy. The only way you can get the top arm on is to remove the upper bump stop rubber. This will allow the upper arm to take the load off of the torsion spring. It only just clears the bump stop bracket enough to enable removal/replacement.

Cheers for the advice, after a lot of swearing and banging it finally went back on. That's one job I won't be attempting again for sometime

 

[*Sam*]

Hi buddy did you have to remove the bump stop, I know transporter house say yes and T2D say no.

 

[ZedBed]

You don't have to, but if you're struggling it's easier if you do.

 

[neilswheels]

i removed mine and still had to use a crow bar to lift the arm up to clear the bumpstop mount.

 

[user 14475]

Watching this thread with interest! My bus failed its MOT on worn drag link, upper ball joints on both sides and nearside track rod.

Think it's one for the professionals!

 

[Happystamps]

you can take the trailing arms out easily enough (remove the spindles first) and replace them with recon ones that have new balljoints in, but you can't put new balljoints in yourself without at least a 20ton press

(well... you can... with angle grinding etc... but just get 'em pressed out if you've never done it before)