he has the right personality to do it. is ok if you cuss at it, but have to have patience and persistence.

Hahaha agreed! I would love to have a lift but where’s the fun in that? I love the feeling of a vehicle might fall on me bc of crappy jack stands(says sarcastically)

@@bdavis12758 After having a lift it is soul sucking doing work on the ground ( retired spanner spinner.)

Garage?.... Your really living it up. I have gravel and 35 degrees.... LOL

@@detornodoes upstate New York and center Kansas, I know your pain!

i've encountered this bs twice from different manufacturers. ergh!

I bought the slide hammer attachment. Doesn't fit in all areas but helps a ton when it fits. On that one, leave the old inner cup and use the new cv shaft with new inner parts. 😉

What I've had to do which seem to work was getting a big pry bar and using it as kind of a punch at the back, hitting the striking end to push it out

@@melvingibson4525 I think a slide hammer if you can get it on well is op, i've used a pair of prybars typically, but sometimes what they leaver against is too delicate

I've been there. Broke a puller trying to take one out, and then when hand tightening the new one, the thing popped out like it wasn't even held in.

Worked at Chevy dealers for years, GM would send out advisors now and again, once when totally at wits end working, on paticularly misengineered GM crap, I voiced my displeasure to the rep, this was his reply" the designers design the car, then it's sent to engineering, making it mechanically feasible, then it's sent to money people, they in turn remove features making the car repairable as to costly", so this is why cars are hard to work on, not due to engineering, but bottom line.

Gardening of the galaxy. Love and miss

@@4knanapapa Наивно думать, что компании вроде GM будут думать о вашем благосостоянии, даже если планета превратится в свалку трехлетних выкинутых автомобилей. GM в первую очередь думает о своём благосостоянии, деньги их бог.

@@bearrus2416 That applies to more than just GM. Every company works that way. It's one of the disadvantages of Capitalism, Particularly late stage Capitalism.

@@bearrus2416 Translated: It's naive to think that companies like GM will care about your well-being even if the planet turns into a dumping ground for three-year-old discarded cars. GM first of all thinks about their well-being, money is their god.

The amount of rust alone would make me run south unless the money is so good up there you can buy something new every few years. I got a 74 I’ve had since 85 and it’s got very VERY little rust and it mostly surface. There is no holes.

@@Robrt32 Apparently, the money is so good that those up there CAN afford a new car every few years. I can't even imagine spending that type of money every three years or so. My last cars were 96, 03, 10, and 18. At 2 percent or less on the loans, it was an ok deal on each one. They were all GM, since I got the family price, so no haggling (even if it wasn't the BEST possible deal). And, I got a really good trade-in price on each one. I didn't even need to try to sell them on the open market. Although I'm sure I could have come out a few thousand ahead, I didn't have to deal with the tire-kickers and other idiots.

This one was literally not rusty at all; that's why it's so weird and doesn't really make sense. ???

@@calholli Agreed. He commented that it wasn't very rusty. The owner WAS warned it was on the way out (or at least one on that side), so.. what was the "Rest of the Story"?

@@silasmarner7586 He changed that side too. 

Even when they fail it's usually not too bad. My gf had this happen to her Acura (similar model). It happened on asphalt close to home, so she drove it about 1km back to the drive. Some how the only damage was the ball joint and the CV axle which came apart.

@@mzb8134 How does that even happen? The car must have been making noises FOREVER before it happened.

@@mph5896 if the balljoint is loaded by the spring you might not get any noises if it fails fast enough.

@@rkan2 Ball joints don't just fail randomly, under normal use at least. The kid in this video we told he needed this done a year ago. He chose to abuse the car and now it's costing him twice as much or more.

@@jamesofallthings3684 Absolutely, but like Wes explained when comparing yo the F150 - some can fail more catastrophically than others. Some setups have the balljoint loaded by the spring like this Acura. Others have the weight of the vehicle/strut on the balljoint.

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One of my favorite newer tools is the vice grip slide hammer combo. I too was surprised it didn’t get it done.

I didn't realize what the vice grip adapter in my slide hammer set was way back in the day when I first got it. It was life changing here in the rust belt once I figured it out

I thought he was on the right track when he grabbed two pry bars, I was surprised when that didn't do it. I like the vicegrip slide hammer too.

just replaced one today, super common

Depends on the company. Some send their engineers out on the production floor or repair areas as part of training, others do not. Regardless, in my history as an engineer (non-automotive), an issue is brought by said engineer to manager or design team and a compromise or decision made based on cost, likelihood of needing replaced and many other factors. I have had to design things in a manner I wasn't the most pleased with out of necessity or higher authority direction in spite of giving reasons not to go that way. Not saying some engineers don't think of repair needs or don't have mechanical experience or may not have seen where the engine was going to be shoehorned into the bay.

@@brianworley7705 Dam bean counters.

Or you could, you know, charge the customer for a new one

Nobody's getting rich off .6 for a ball joint😉

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