Help with lower ball joints on a 100 series cruiser

[Sibeta2]

Looking for someone who can change lower ball joints on 100 series cruiser in So. Utah. I do all my own work usually but am looking for someone local in St. George to help me with this. I got a good shop reccomendation down here by Cruiser Outfitters but the guy is 5 weeks out he told me. Anyways, anybody down this way that has experience with ball joints. I did the upper already. Need a press for the lowers. Dealership is actually not too pricey but they will only change out the whole arm. let me know if you know of anyone, thanks.

 

[I Lean]

I used a rental ball joint tool from O'reilly to change my lower ball joint on my 100. I don't recall specifically if I needed anything different from what was included in the kit, but it did work. (different sizes of tube spacers is all it might have been)

 

[rholbrook]

I used a rental ball joint tool from O'reilly to change my lower ball joint on my 100. I don't recall specifically if I needed anything different from what was included in the kit, but it did work. (different sizes of tube spacers is all it might have been)

This, I did the same thing and made short work of it.

 

[Shawn]

Harbor Freight, bought mine from them, works good

 

[Sibeta2]

Did you guys have to remove the caliper and rotor to be able to get the ball joint tool in there to swap the joint?

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Lower Ball Joint Replacement Instructions

I just replaced the LCA ball joints with some Triple 5's sourced through AutoZone sold as DuraLast. Since there was not a thread with pictures of the actual pressing in and out process I thought I throw something together along with the tricks and tools I used to make the actual pressing...

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