ball joint question

[mrmcnotbuff]

hey guys i was doing a break replacement and i found out that all of my ball joints? were shot. i have the pics too. i went to autozone and they told me that i had to replace the whole control arm and every thing. i just want to know if i could just replace the ball joints?

[ceelooboob]

well lower ball joints you can replace just the ball joint, the joint on your tie rod end you might as well replace the tie rod ends, and the uppers i'm not sure i just replaced the whole control arms themselves because it seemed easier than pounding out the ball joint

yup what he said and u do hafta replace the upper control arm for that upper joint

[Gettin_faster91]

Another option is getting a ball joint camber kit is really worth it if you plan to lower you car. I have the ingalls and they rock plus i killed two birds with one stone cus my ball joints were shot and i also needed a camber kit. Not to mention they were only like $160. bucks or so, frankley i dont remember what i gave for them. But it was cheeper than getting new honda oem upper control arms. It might take ya 30mins to an hour to install them your self, Then go get an alignment. Good luck.

[mrmcnotbuff]

so i can get a camber kit for the top and replace the two bottom ones? is there just the three or is there another one i should be looking for?

[Gettin_faster91]

you got 2 upper ball joints one per upper control arm. and you have 2 lowers.
You can save a alot of money doing this your self.

[mrmcnotbuff]

im sorry i guess im just confused. so the one in the top pic is an upper ball joint. the other two pics r the lower ball joints. so were is this other ball joint?

[Gettin_faster91]

Upper Control arm This is the upper control arm with ball joint. This is the balljoint camber kit to replace the oem ball joint..

lower ball joint here> lower ball joint its on the bottom right behind the rotor.... Hope this helps.

[mrmcnotbuff]

o gotcha i get it now

[djcaz_aom]

im sorry i guess im just confused. so the one in the top pic is an upper ball joint. the other two pics r the lower ball joints. so were is this other ball joint?

The other one is the ball joint on the tie rod. it is also very important. Replace those as well.

[Maple50175]

Armcan on ebay .. that guy has stellar deals on balljoints and shit.

[tig3rpaw]

u should be ight my is shit bust too been drivin like that for almost a year now car is lower too up to u!

[mikes_accord_se]

yeah i just learned from my mechanic that told me my ball joints were shot. that would explain why my car makes a popping sound everytime i turn. so i need to get that fixed really soon because i've been driving on this for about 2 months not knowing what the sound was. i'm just hoping they won't fully break because then i would be screwed.

[Gen4Acclude]

dont forget the inner tie-rod ball joint

[Lynk]

dont forget the inner tie-rod ball joint

+1

If you're going to replace all of 'em, you might as well replace all of 'em.

[ntcb7]

Hey man u can get all the ball joints on ebay for cheap i got all mine on there for like 120 for all of them.