More questions about rebuilding the front suspension on my 1976 D100.

Factory service manual calls for using Tool C-3867 and Tool C-4034 when installing lower ball joints in the lower control arms.

I cannot find these anywhere, nor can I find any kind of cross-reference pat number or even a picture. I am assuming these are adapters to hold the ball joint and control arm when you are pressing the new ball joint in place.

Anyone have any info on these special tools? Anyone know of an alternative to these tools?

Thanks.

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I don't have the manual in front of me but there is a c clamp type tool with different sized sleeves most people use these days for press on ball joints. You should be able y"rent" from either useless zone or o'wrongleys.
If we weren't 2/3 of a country away from each other you could sure use mine.
In the old days I used to just put a stand under the control arm just behind the joint and hit the ball joint with a BFH. Then to install id put the ball joint in the hole, then a wood block, then a bottle jack under the block and use the BFH to hit the control arm just ahead of the new ball joint
Back in the 80s I did alot of them this way

I've done many jobs not even knowing there was a factory tool available.
Weird as I was just doing some cleaning in the garage and I put a box of new front end parts up in the attic that fit these trucks. I have 2 of them to do.

Are you removing the lower control arm from the truck?

A shop press is handy. As well as the 4wd type ball joint press. Those can be used on or off the truck. Also bring or get a mapp gas torch and a wire welding brush to help get things moving when you begin pressing.

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Thanks.

I have the cheap Harbor Freigth 10 (12?) ton press and I have used that before to do bushings, wheel bearings, hubs, etc... But I have been finding some good deals on dusty, rusty, used factory special tools and if it save me 30 minutes fighting to figure out a stack of metal plated or sockets to safely press something, I will spend the money. Seriously, I have lucked out finding pickers on eBay who are selling off tools leftover from dealerships closing.

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Be VERY VERY careful when using a torch on ANY ball socket. This is includes tie rod ends. When heated too much ball sockets are known to violently come apart. And by violently I mean shooting 40 feet and then passing through a steel buildings wall panel. I would suggest not being the person to figure out the point of just enough heat and too much heat into a ball joint. I had a coworker shoot a BJ stud through a wall.

10 years ago there was a good youtube surgery video of someone that had exploded a ball joint. In the video they were extracting a flat metal disc about an 2 inches wide and 1/4 inch thick from a forearm. Looked like the plate that usually has a grease zerk in it.

here is an example vid, not gory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydodex0jME

Yes, I meant to use it on the control arm around the ball joint for expansion, not on the joint itself. There is some heat transfer there.

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Still no luck finding these tools, but they are described as adapters to be used with a press. If that is the case, I can always try to find plumbing fittings or metal tubing that will work.

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I save old bearing races and other things that I use with my press, Sometimes cheap arbors can be fashioned from plumbing bits of pipe, too, but they often are not square unless you do some lathe work to the ends.

If I remember, I will send a picture of my menagerie of press arbors from crap that I have parted out over the years (rear axles mostly).



Greg

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