Author Topic: Where do you go? (Read 404 times)

Fast68back · « **on:** August, 12, 2008, 06:29:19 PM »

When you need something pressed on? I need to replace the ball joints on the bubba truck and they are pressed onto the spindles. Where is the best place to take them to get them pressed? Machine shop?

BTW- this is the bubba truck

AzPete · « **Reply #1 on:** August, 12, 2008, 06:43:38 PM »

napaguy · « **Reply #2 on:** August, 12, 2008, 09:01:54 PM »

+2 machine shop

beach pony · « **Reply #3 on:** August, 13, 2008, 04:03:34 AM »

Machine shop would be my first guess. ;)

daveSanborn · « **Reply #4 on:** August, 13, 2008, 05:01:22 AM »

Although a machine shop is fully capable of pressing in new ball joints, you should be able to go to most any automotive garage/service center. A "shop press" is a fairly common piece of equipment in most garages around here.

Think about it.... 75% of the people needing new ball joints on their truck drop it off at the shop to get fixed. The shop pops the old ball joints out and presses the new ones in.... they don't "farm" this aspect of the repair process out to a machine shop, they do it in house.

Starfury · « **Reply #5 on:** August, 13, 2008, 09:11:01 AM »

In fact, you don't even need a full hydraulic press to do it. Most shops have tools that allow you to press them in/out with a wrench/screw-type setup, converting rotational force into linear force. That way you don't have to take the whole damned control arm out of the vehicle;)