While these press sets usually do the job Sometimes you will need more to get the old ones out, especially if they are the originals. Be prepared in case you can’t get the job done. 

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jim Felder
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 1:50 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Front end overhaul

John, I will loan you the Harbor Freight ball joint tool set that I used. I put the big c-clamp part of it in a vise and pressed the old ones out and new ones in in an hour or so, front and rear. Not a big deal. It comes with the collars and such that press the bushings out and back in. It takes some fiddling to get the right pieces strung together for a certain task but not too bad.

Jim

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:42 PM Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> > .... Can tthe lower ones be done
> > first (by a shop) and the later the uppers done by me?
>
>
> This is what I did. Upper ball joint R&R is easy to do.
> Would suggest using a shop that will press the new lower ball joints 
> in. The shop that did mine basically pounded them in using bits of 
> pipe.
> That worked, but I think the right way to do this is to use a press of 
> some kind.
>
> Neil.
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