As the title says, I pressed in some new ball joints today. I can honestly say that this was not a fun job at all. I've tackled some big jobs before, but this was pure misery. The easiest part of the whole job was taking the spindle arms down to the machine shop to get the old joints knocked out. That was the best $7 I've spent this year. I used the borrowed Autozone press kit and an impact tool to drive the new ones in. They went in straight but it took several minutes of driving to get them in. The impact socket was smoking hot when I was done.

Oh, the point of the story. It was pretty dark in the shop when I was pressing the last joint in. When I heard the snap of the joint going in the last little bit, I thought in was in all of the way and packed up the press and took it back to Autozone. When I packed in the arms this evening to admire my work, I noticed that I lacked about a sixteenth of an inch of driving the joint in all of the way. Fudge, but I didn't say fudge.

Ball joints suck. Sorry, I just had to vent.

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'82 240D Euro 68K and growing