jogirob
Well-Known Member
I replaced the ball joints on my 74 Charger about 3 weeks back. I had the car on jack stands for about a week waiting on new brake calipers and hoses. After I buttoned everything down and torqued everything to spec I took it on a ride and heard some deep creaking coming from under the front of the car when going over road undulations. I don't get the creaking when braking, or going over speed bumps or going up and down my drive way. I was hoping it was just the car suspension components settling back in.
Good to knows:
-The driver side lower control arm had a thread on type of ball joint, I didn't find this out until I pressed it off. It was slightly more difficult to press off than your standard press fit ball joint, I guess I'm just that strong. I replaced it with the correct press on type ball joint. The control arm didn't look to be damaged from this.
-I received the calipers to a 72 Charger. It has a different hose connection type (direct screw on rather than a banjo bolted line) fortunately I also had the 72 brake hose so everything paired up just fine.
-I completely disassembled the steering knuckle since I was having problems installing my ball joint tool with all that hardware in the way. Properly torqued it all down.
Good to knows:
-The driver side lower control arm had a thread on type of ball joint, I didn't find this out until I pressed it off. It was slightly more difficult to press off than your standard press fit ball joint, I guess I'm just that strong. I replaced it with the correct press on type ball joint. The control arm didn't look to be damaged from this.
-I received the calipers to a 72 Charger. It has a different hose connection type (direct screw on rather than a banjo bolted line) fortunately I also had the 72 brake hose so everything paired up just fine.
-I completely disassembled the steering knuckle since I was having problems installing my ball joint tool with all that hardware in the way. Properly torqued it all down.