Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 05:38 pm, by: David Henderson(Hendo)
I have a set of lower control arms that I bought so I could do a quick bush changeover, however the boots are split.
The joints themselves seem are clean and undamaged, though I don't have a small enough torque wrench to measure the turning torque. They have no play and rotate ok, one more easily than the other.
The manual explains: "move joint side to side 5 times. Rotate the joint 5 times, measure the (turning) torque is 1-3.4 Nm on the 5th turn"
So my questions are:
Can I get new boots? Is there a way of verifying a ball joint is ok without a torque wrench?
Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 10:44 am, by: Matthew Regan(Mattregan)
I have a split boot when i did my lca bushes and i showed it to a toyota mechanic that does a lot of balljoints on mining vehicles and he told me to pack the boot full of grease then wrap the boot with some denso tape.It is very sticky horrible stuff but seems to work great keeps the grease in and dirt out
Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 07:56 pm, by: Matthew Regan(Mattregan)
just put my control arms back in woo hoo what a difference the vft bushes make the ride is now awesome and denso tape worked perfectly no grease leaked out and nothing can get in all good
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 09:27 am, by: David Henderson(Hendo)
sweet as, I tried a search and diddn't find anything- there's alot of stuff there! thanks for the help, i just did LCAs (branz) and the difference is amazing! it drives straight now! yay