I know this video is 6 years old, but I wanted to leave a comment to say that this has been extremely thorough and helpful. Thank you for making this.

Owning a 20 year old TJ means you better learn how fix things yourself or you are going to be wasting a lot of money. This is by far the best Jeep repair video I have watched. Just did the upper and lower ball joints on the driver side yesterday. I had this video on the tv in the garage and just followed right along. I was dealing with a bit more rust but I got the job done. Successfully completing this project motivated me to do some other much needed maintenance items. Going to do the passenger side today and will try leaving the axle nut on this time. Thanks for putting this together. It seriously saved me a ton of money and it was fun too!

one of the best jeep how-to videos i've watched.

Best instructional video I've ever watched. Perfect clarity, beautifully edited and spot on commentary. Thanks!

I really love the fact that you put on the screen what size sockets and wrenches to use even after you say it, that goes a long way for a lot of people! And I love the fact that you outline or mark the parts with the white lines and include the names, very helpful and informative! Great work!

This is how you make a HOWTO video. Great technical detail, lighting, editing, text/graphic overlays. Harry Connick Jr. can play piano and replace ball joints, too! 👍

Definitely a great video for step by step purposes! In reality, there is a lot more rust and this job is a pain in the ass!!!

I don’t even need to replace ball joints. This is just entertaining.

Very informative, thank you. This really helped me get the job done on my '03 TJ. However, for those of you, like myself, who are changing ball joints to get rid of 'death wobble', should do yourself a favor and check your front hubs (bearings) before you take the tires off. Once the vehicle is lifted, hold the tire at 12 and 6 and see if there's any vertical play and dull metal tapping sound while jiggling it. This was the culprit on my driver's side vibrations and I only discovered it AFTER complete reassembly, so I had to take it back off all the way to the axle. Still, it was worth it, I'm riding as smooth as a Wrangler can, which is not smooth at all but with no wobble.

If you're just replacing ball joints you can leave the axle nut on and pull the hub assembly and shaft as one piece. Saves the hassle of removing then re-torquing the nut.

Thanks for the vid. Got bored during Pandemic Lockdown and I pulled my 99 TJ out of the garage after not driving it in 3-4 years because I didn't feel like replacing the cracked exhaust manifold. So I did that without issue one weekend. Next weekend did a roadside repair of a faulty CPS, and noticed my right front brake was squeaking/dragging. So here I am in week 3 doing brakes and find my steering knuckle has the dreaded pad indents/grooves on the slide causing the pads to hang. So ordering steering knuckle replacements, wheel hub assembly, rotors and pads and ball joints since i have it all apart, i might as well knock it all out. Thanks for the clear vid, just what the Doctor ordered for everything i have to do.

great video! no language, clean place, clear viewing

that's the best ball joint video I have watched yet. I'm a idiot when it comes to that kind of thing and you made it crystal clear. Thank you very much I had your video playing the whole time I did mine and it went perfectly smooth

Don’t stop making Jeep repair videos. 👍🏻

Hands down the best instructional video I have seen. The printed tech data was an awesome bonus. Please do more as I have an 05 LJ Rubicon I will follow your lead on my vehicle

Great how-to video showing each step. Thanks for taking the time to make and publish. Need to service the front-end on our 2001 Jeep Cherokee XJ and this will be my reference video. Thanks again!

Fantastic how to with great details! One of those jobs you tend to dread but then can feel great about when it's done!

Excellent! The best video I have seen on how to replace ball joints on a Jeep. You even included torque settings fantastic.

that was the most efficiently detailed auto maintenance video EVER! Thank you.

Awesome video. Thanks for your generosity of time and energy to help your fellow Jeepers. I'm going to share the heck outta this one.

Really good step-by-step video of the ball joint replacement - nice job. As others have noted, many of us own crusty Jeeps where these components are heavily rusted. For those doing this for the first time with rusty parts: If you can't get the old ball joints to move using the press, you will need to heat up the 'C' metal the ball joints are being held by using a torch (a hand torch with a MAP gas bottle will work). First take a wire wheel and remove surface rust as must as you can, then apply penetrating oil like PB Blaster and let it soak in awhile. Next, use the torch, avoid applying direct heat to the ball joint itself as much as possible. You shouldn't need to get the metal 'cherry red' with the torch, but you will need to get the metal fairly hot, and the ball joints should break loose. Note - do NOT apply heat with the ball joint press mounted. Heat the metal first, then assemble the press over the ball joints and push them out. Use gloves to avoid getting burned (and safety glass too). My old very crusty ball joints would not budge without heat. For installation, use caution with heat when installing new ball joints, as the heat could damage the ball joint. You shouldn't need heat to re-install, though it may make it easier to press in. Some ball joints have an internal plastic component that will melt at high enough temps - with removal, this doesn't matter, but installation, you don't want to ruin a new ball joint using too much heat. Some have recommended the combination of freezing the ball joint, and heating the 'C' metal to ease installation - it will work, but if you use the heat to excess, then you run the risk of ruining the new ball joint. Good luck

What a great video!! Straight to the point, no joking around. Very clear, very steady. Thank you!!

This was a very informative video. Clear video and sound made it perfectly easy to see and understand everything that was being done. Great video.

Outstanding video. Your explanation of steps was clear. Now I’m ready to do my ball joints. Thank you Creeker Jeeper

Awesome vid! i will be watching this in the garage as i do the front of my 96 XJ, Thanks!!!

Great video, concise, not too dry and very informative.

Dude your a Jeep Professor with this well explained video. Thank you for your time and help.

NICE JOB! Very professional video and thorough. Thanks

Great work, its good to watch someone who's good with tools, nice job.

Like a boss. One of the best instructional videos. Was searching for tie rod replacement but ended up watching the whole thing.

One of the best informative videos I've seen yet; fantastic job: clear, concise and to the point. Nice touch having all the necessary socket sizes and torques included in the video. Much appreciated.......

Great video! Probably the most informative and well shot one I've seen lately. Love that this was done on an LJ! As an LJ owner myself, it's hard not to love this video.

Absoltuely great video, has helped me so much... but also I did not unbolt the hub from the axle, as recommended by another commentor. You made my job so much easier! Nice professionalism, great directions, great filming, no profanity like others who feel need to be more of a man I guess, so no worries about my kids being around. Well done.

Super helpful video just knocked out ball joints on my 01 thank you sir!

Quite informative and thorough presentation on how to do ball joints. Makes me want to try this on my own. Was initially looking for information on the loose bolt on the axle of the track bar on my 93 Wrangler.

Bro your video was incredibly helpful. Thank you

This is absolutely the best how-to video I've ever seen on You Tube!! Thanks so much!

best video I have ever seen. Step by step. I followed your video and with another and was able to replace my sway bars and ends front and back track bar front and back, upper lower ball joints all wheels, breaks, tie bar ends, dampener and upper tie rod saved a ton of money and learned everthing I needed about suspensions THANKS!

Absolute best how to video ever. You should have your own show

Really good how to. Great info, especially the torque values.

One of the best vids I've watched. Great audio, camera work. Nice speed for covering the work being done. My first time watching you and it made me a subscriber!

Great video write up. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Just subscribed after watching and taking notes. Congratulations, on taking the time and patience to add all the details, i.e. bolt and nuts tool sizing, a helpful addition, that some others miss which, all told, makes your video on ball joints informative and useful. Add to that, you also include tips for the other required, R&R ancillaries, culminating in a well made tutorial for the diy at home Jeep enthusiast. Thank you!

I’m installing a lift and replacing a bunch of front end parts. I have resorted to this video multiple times. I can’t thank you enough for making it.

Awesome video!! Very detailed. Thank you for posting.

Best instruction video I have ever seen. Thanks.

Wow, what a great presentation. Spot on!

Very detailed job.! Thank you for this upload.!!

01 XJ Owner. Excellent Video!

Great camera work. Great instructional video.

Great video, very helpful. Will tackle this. Local shop wants 21/2 hours per side.

Best videos I've seen on TJ's. Nice job!! Thank you.

Great video you make it look so easy. I'm a technician might have to do this myself soon.

This is the most professional video I've ever seen

Great instructional video! I see the value of separating the axle from the hub as it makes it lighter and easier to manage. He took great care to not contaminate the axle splines which would be more difficult to align without scraping the inside of the axle housing. Someone with bigger stronger Popeye forearms and wrists could do it, but not me. Great job! Hope to see more videos?

Great video, I'm about to do all this on my 98 wrangler for the first time.

Very clear and well done video!

Really nicely done diy video! Thanks!

This is an excellent instructional video.

Thank you for posting this. Excellent video. I will be doing mine on Monday and this guide will be front and center!!!

On screen specs of torques and tips etc. is top notch

Thank you very much for making this video I just bought my first Jeep and I am brand new to this world thank you for going into the extra detail because now I know how all the other parts work I hope you choose to make more videos

EXCELLENT INSTRUCTION!!! THANK YOU!!!

Outstanding video. Thanks!

Thanks for the video. I use my jack handle as a breaker as well. Good on ya

Thanks for the video, doesn't look difficult as long as you have the proper tools.

What a clean TJ!

Thanks for the video helped me out a lot!

I bought by tj from that dealer 6 years ago still very happy

This was an awesome how to thanks you for taking the time to make a video of this quality for wanna be mechanics like me hahah

Fantastic !!!! Great video, Thanks.

something very simple guys- don't use a differential as a lifting point. Differentials are not designed to be lifted from and yes they do crack. Use the FRAME to lift the vehicle every time, no exception.

Awesome video used to today to change mine. I would have been lost with out it. Thanks

very good descriptive video. thanks!

Good video,very informative.thanks.

Great video without the need for language edits - a great plus when my grandson is helping me!

damn good video! thanks for taking the time to post!

Nice LJ! I've got a black beauty, love it.

excellent demonstration thanks.

Thank you so much..very helpful

This dude is a wiz at this!

Great video! Thank you!

Mistrzostwo Świata - fachowo ,czysto, precyzyjnie !!!!!

Great Video, helped a lot when replacing my TJ ball joints. Gave me the confidence I needed to complete the job vs paying someone $$$$ in labor for no reason. I replaced the wheel bearing & Bolts, and spline u joint while i had everything off so i don't have to worry about it later though. With all of that plus the ball joint press and Mopar adapter (Definatly need, find on Amazon) i am still way ahead of what a shop wanted to charge!

A very good video expertly done without the need for profanities.

excellent video. Thanks

Great vid!

Excellent video

great video!!

Excellent video.

Excellent video thanks

Awesome Jeep. My dream Jeep

Wonderful video. Liked and Subscribed.

Great video

You made that look so easy. 🤯

Thanks for the step by step

Really great, thanks!

GREAT VIDEO

This is one of the best instructional videos on youtube. Easy to understand, comprehensive, and no fluff at all! Thank you. I'm doing all four joints on my New England salted TJ. To get my hub unstuck from the knuckle I threaded a bolt into one of the three hub mounting holes (not the Jeep bolt, it was a used head bolt from a Ford Ranger) and hit the bolt head to knock the hub away from the knuckle. During re-assembly I will be putting a thin smear of anti-seize on both mating surfaces of the brake dust shield to help keep the hub from getting stuck to the knuckle again.

That was realy good job.