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Upper ball joints

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by snowman4evr, Nov 27, 2020.

  1. Nov 30, 2020 at 6:27 PM
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    Pervy

    Pervy Well-Known Member

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    Did my own upper and lower balljoints just fine on my own (on multiple tacos). The upper is notably easier than doing the lower ones to me just because you have more space to work on them, and getting them set just right to propperly screw in is more a pain for the lower ones. Personally don't really see all that much reason that someone would have trouble with them unless they got overzealous and super overtorqed the smaller bolts, and ended up snapping them or something. Really a pretty straight forward procedure if you got a ball joint press at least.
     
  2. Nov 30, 2020 at 7:06 PM
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    snowman4evr

    snowman4evr [OP] New Member

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    The right tools is key. I got my passenger side done, working on the driver side now intermittently. probably do both sides in 6 hours if I could work on it straight without interruptions and it wasn't 25 degrees outside. I would say its no more difficult then the ram was.
     

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