Ball Joint seperator

green-blood

Hey

Mini failed NCT on ball joints, have parts and mate sourced for Saturday, but does anyone have a seperator tool I could borrow, prefereably teh scissor type and preferably in or around Dublin so I can collect/deliver.

Really looking forward to this!!

MercMad

No.......sorry.............but I need to buy one to do the C-Class my Dad has, so if you are really stuck, buy one at a local Motor Factors (€20) and I'll buy it off you when you're done !

green-blood

my mate in the motor factors is trying to get on in for me today.... if he does and its not too pricey, you can borrow it no probs.

then again if anyone has a loan!!

corktina

cant you stick a big spanner in the joint and hit it with a hammer...?

MercMad

:rolleyes:

.............he's trying to fix it not gunter it !!

green-blood

oh good lord!!!!

Nope, its a mini there is no room to swinga hammer in these wheelarches.

Mental note - never buy a cortina from Cork!!!!

corktina

i dont know what arrangement your cars have, but the seperator for a Cortina mk2 is simplly a forked bar which goes into the joint and as it is tapered, it splits the joint asunder with a tap from a hammer....in an emergency, a large spanner will do this too......( so long as you remember to take off the nut of course.....as you will be fitting new parts, damage to the old parts is immaterial i should think.....( ps if there isnt room to swing a big hammer under the wheel arches....get a smaller hammer...( or a bigger car...):D

MercMad

dont know what arrangement your cars have, but the seperator for a Cortina mk2 is simplly a forked bar which goes into the joint and as it is tapered, it splits the joint asunder with a tap from a hammer....in an emergency, a large spanner will do this too......( so long as you remember to take off the nut of course.....as you will be fitting new parts, damage to the old parts is immaterial i should think.....( ps if there isnt room to swing a big hammer under the wheel arches....get a smaller hammer...( or a bigger car...)

...................and some new thumbs, and knuckles !!

A hammer is a carpenters tool at the best of times, and spanners are for spanning nuts !!

Get the right tool for the right job !!

green-blood

yep - a mechanic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

corktina

MercMad wrote:

...................and some new thumbs, and knuckles !!

A hammer is a carpenters tool at the best of times, and spanners are for spanning nuts !!

Get the right tool for the right job !!

read it again...proper joint splitter is a forked tapered bar which you tap in with a hammer...spanner is for emergencies....it's an old car not precision engineering for heavens sake ...and if you are replacing the parts, what harm can you do?
id love to know how you would part a seized nut from its bolt.....presumably you wouldnt resort to the oxy accetaline? no, but most mechanics would....

MercMad

Fair enough................I wasn't having a go tho' !

Then again who said it was an emergency ?

corktina

MercMad wrote:

Fair enough................I wasn't having a go tho' !

Then again who said it was an emergency ?

true...that was me wasnt it.....:D

green-blood

oh dear.

anyway I got me a nice fork... nice an cheap, but so called mate behind teh counter got me knuckle joints which were recently replaced and not ball joints.... wally, so now have no parts... here we go again