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PostPosted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:00 pm    Post subject: Ball joint peening result Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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