[T3] ball joints

[Dave Hall]

Sorry - got the socket size wrong!

Just an important warning:-
The pinch-bolt for the lower end of the ball-joint will be damaged if you do
not remove the torsion bar tension pulling the two torsion arms apart.
These bolts are special ones with longer unthreaded shanks, and high-tensile
10.8.  Being suspecsion components, please don't use inferior bolts here.

You need to get a screw clamp which will pull the arms together
sufficiently.  A big G-clamp might be good enough.

The bolts can be hard to remove - again, soaking with a penetrating fluid
helps.  It will take a lot of drilling out if they break off.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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Sent: 08 March 2012 00:05
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Subject: Re: [T3] ball joints

 
In a message dated 3/7/2012 1:54:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
csheridan at virtual-consulting.net writes:

Hi,
Has anyone changed their ball joints on their type 3 that wants  to share
the following:

1) Did anyone damage their nuts removing the  ball joints (the ball joint
nuts) because it appears
they need to reused  on the new ball joints

2) Was a ball joint removal tool necessary or  did people use a pickle
fork/5 lb sledge to knock them loose?

this  is for a 1970 fastback.

thanks,




I just did this to my T-34 two weeks ago. I used Meyle brand ball joints
(made in Italy with German parts according to the box), and they came with a
new  nut. I used a 30 mm socket on my 18 inch breaker bar to get them loose,
then off. After that, I used a 17 mm socket to remove the thru bolt, then my
old  worn out craftsman flat blade screw driver to slightly spread the gap
where the  thru bolt was. I then replaced the ball joints with the new parts
and  reassembled, making sure the flats were parallel to the brake rotor. 
 

Bob 65 Notch  S with sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
64 T-34 Ghia  (Wolfie)
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