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Subject:Re: upper ball joint replacement
From:Michael Sullivan
Date:Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:04:55 -0600

Head cheese?  Ugh!
Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'
73 Beetle

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> did one upper ball joint today. I was all set to have a nice time,
> and take pictures to document what I thought would be an easy job.
> Turned out to be a bear, tapered joint would not pop out they way "it
> should".
>
> "details" here:  http://shufti.wordpress.com/
>
>
> I also took a quick picture of my modified Jackall, high lift style
> jack. I welded on a it of the stock jack to some box section steel
> and that is bolted on the Jackall's lift part.
>
> Alistair
>
> '86 syncro 7  passenger
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
> http://shufti.wordpress.com
>