What is needed to change the ball joints on a Jeep?

Brian

Jeep Fanatic
We get people asking us to work on their vehicles all the time to complete small jobs. Most of the jobs are the kind that are not hard, but to make the job easy, you have to have the right tools. Ball joints are super easy and most can do them in their driveway without issue! All you need is a simple and cheap tool to make things go a bit easier.

In the Youtube video below we go over the Astro Pneumatic ball joint press kit. This kit is cheap and easy. You can press them out and back in with this tool. No pounding at all! We were working on an old XJ in the video.

[video=youtube;ZdQenPAKetM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQenPAKetM[/video]

All you need is the Astro 7865 Ball Joint Service Tool on Amazon: http://amzn.to/29qMCS7

We also bought the Astro 7868 Master Ball Joint Adapter Set from Amazon: http://amzn.to/29igDQA because we wanted to be able to work on our older cars with it.

We have done ball joints without any special tools before and would never do that again!
 

lindel

Jeep Owner
I rented a ball joint press from my local McParts store. Couldn't tell you the brand, but it was decent quality. Made the job a lot quicker, and also made it child's play to swap the front axle U-joints, at the same time.
 

Kjeeper10

Jeep Fanatic
Good stuff !!!!!

Ive heard of people angling a piece of tubing to press out the upper joint on the JK.

2 door Rubicon, 3.5" RockKrawler x-factor, 37x12.5x17 MTR's, Steer Smarts Yeti steering, Savvy aluminum half doors.
 
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