Re: Lower Ball Joint Hole Slightly elongated
No explaining people's different experiences I guess.
Every full size Chev and (Canadian) Pont built from 58 to 70 used that joint so working in the trade in the 70's and 80's I must have replaced hundreds of those things. Never saw a rivet slide out of the wing arms on the joint after the head was off. The more you smashed on the headless rivet, the more you spread it and the tighter they got. The quick and dirty way was to cut the outboard head off with the air chisel then use a straight small ended punch in the air chisel and work at the rivet until the ball joint arms bent in enough for the rivet stub to clear the control arm and pry the joint out. Marked up the control arm, but hardly anyone cared about that in their 15 year old biscayne.
I do the drill thing in the Corvettes to avoid marring anything.
Steve
No explaining people's different experiences I guess.
Every full size Chev and (Canadian) Pont built from 58 to 70 used that joint so working in the trade in the 70's and 80's I must have replaced hundreds of those things. Never saw a rivet slide out of the wing arms on the joint after the head was off. The more you smashed on the headless rivet, the more you spread it and the tighter they got. The quick and dirty way was to cut the outboard head off with the air chisel then use a straight small ended punch in the air chisel and work at the rivet until the ball joint arms bent in enough for the rivet stub to clear the control arm and pry the joint out. Marked up the control arm, but hardly anyone cared about that in their 15 year old biscayne.
I do the drill thing in the Corvettes to avoid marring anything.
Steve
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