Rear Lower Control (Camber) Arm Removal

[eacmen]

I'm shocked this didn't take it off. The battery impacts have as much if not more than air impacts these days.

The higher amp batteries give the tool more power, especially the flexvolts despite what armchair experts say. If going air get the IR 2235timax.

I am also shocked. I had the high cap battery installed and fully charged.

[jet_dogg]

I have heard of this happening before. I'm not a big fan of milw but I must admit the 2767-20 is the top dogg and is able to break stuff the previous model wasn't able to.

[eacmen]

Took the arm off. Removed the CV axle from the diff and bolt cleared with no issue.

However when I took off the rear camber arm there was a twist in it. The fork end was about 25 degrees rotated from the ball joint end. The stock camber arm is straight, I assume this rotation is not good for the ball joints? Maybe this was the leading cause of my failure.

[Tbonem3]

Most seem twisted at least a bit, from memory. Either way, a ball joint is free to rotate in any direction, with no resistance unlike rubber or poly, but then it's not allowed to move at all in certain other directions which means no deflection, which makes it a great joint for suspension. Unless your arm being twisted impinged on the rubber boot in such a way that the joint became exposed or lube leaked out, I don't think there's any harm.

[eacmen]

Most seem twisted at least a bit, from memory. Either way, a ball joint is free to rotate in any direction, with no resistance unlike rubber or poly, but then it's not allowed to move at all in certain other directions which means no deflection, which makes it a great joint for suspension. Unless your arm being twisted impinged on the rubber boot in such a way that the joint became exposed or lube leaked out, I don't think there's any harm.

Thanks. Comparing the replacement bearing with what was in there the replacement seems like much higher quality. GC was using a bearing with some kind of transparent boot.

[eacmen]

Got the passenger side out and pressed the ball joint out. The ball joint looks very different from the replacement one and there is some pretty bad scoring. Can’t tell if this was the original ball joint that came with the GC arms or someone else pressed these in. But I was pretty careful pressing it out and i don’t think I scored the ball joint. Also light scoring in the arm itself. Going to sand it smooth before pressing in new ball joint.

New ball joint that I ordered from GC is a Delphi part. They machine a flat surface on one side for the set screw to prevent rotation of the ball joint in the lollipop. I think I may opt to use lemforder ball joints and machine my own flat spot.