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galencurrington Samba Member
Joined: March 16, 2004 Posts: 426 Location: bowling green, ky
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:47 am Post subject: |
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sometimes they can be really hard to take out because they are peened. you have to unpeen them in order to get them out. we stuck them in a press and they wouldn't budge until we unpeened them. _________________ "asking and getting are two different things" |
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1975 Kombi Samba Member
Joined: August 12, 2007 Posts: 2452 Location: Acton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:00 pm Post subject: Ball joint peening result |
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Here's the peening result with the factory tool. It just forces the ball joint outer edge into the housing slightly to add a bit of lock.
_________________ Brett
“He’s decieving you boy! Reach into his pocket and take what he’s got.” Mr. Crabbs.
75 Westy auto
03 Jetta TDI
71 SB
74 Westy
Licensed pilot (single engine land VFR)
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Rust In Pieces: 72 Bug, 73 Bug, 81 Rabbit LS D 2D, 83 Rabbit D 2D, 84 Jetta TD GL, 85 Jetta D, 68 Z28 RS 302, 91 Passat 16v |
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Joey Samba Member
Joined: August 12, 2005 Posts: 5364 Location: Nova Scotia - Canada
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:02 am Post subject: |
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I can't see why it would be necessary to peen the ball joint into the torsion arm. There's no freaking way the ball joint is coming out on it's own.
I just replaced the ball joints in my '79 with Nakata ball joints. The old ones were OCAP ball joints - the uppers only lasted two years. _________________ Joey
‘60 Kombi - '74 Bus - '79 Panel - '65 Beetle |
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1975 Kombi Samba Member
Joined: August 12, 2007 Posts: 2452 Location: Acton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:06 am Post subject: |
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3 of my original ball joints were peened in and 1 wasn't. The 3 that were peened were definitely harder to press out. So it must be a precautionary thing for added hold. _________________ Brett
“He’s decieving you boy! Reach into his pocket and take what he’s got.” Mr. Crabbs.
75 Westy auto
03 Jetta TDI
71 SB
74 Westy
Licensed pilot (single engine land VFR)
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Rust In Pieces: 72 Bug, 73 Bug, 81 Rabbit LS D 2D, 83 Rabbit D 2D, 84 Jetta TD GL, 85 Jetta D, 68 Z28 RS 302, 91 Passat 16v |
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