Interesting, Jerry. The guys comment was he had a low mileage Explorer and
that he had just had to do the same thing (replace) to it.
Bob Johnson
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:35 PM, jerry adams <cjerryadams@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Do an inspection yourself. Jack front wheels off ground and grab a tire
> top and bottom and push back and forth hard and inspect for play. Then do
> same with front and back grab of tire and push back and forth and inspect
> for play. This will check for ball joint play and tie rod ball joint
> play. Daughter was told that her ball joints needed replacement also on
> her Explorer. I replaced her brakes and inspected the ball joints. They
> were tight but the rubber boots were split and exposed the joints and the
> boots can't be replaced seperately. I have her have the ball joints greased
> more frequently than required to keep the surfaces of the joint clean as
> long as possible. She wiil eventially have to have the ball joints
> replaced but not until she puts many more miles on the Explorer. The
> brakes are another story.
>
> Jerry
> BN2
>
> *From:* Bob Johnson <bjsbj8@gmail.com>
> *To:* Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 8, 2013 9:56 AM
>
> *Subject:* [Healeys] No Healey question- Ford ball joints
>
> Does this sound reasonable? So I took my truck in to get a front end
> alignment and inspection (in NC) at the same time. They did not do the
> alignment because the lower ball joints were to worn to do an alignmnet.
> New ball joints are almost $560 installed. But then, however, the ball
> joints were not so worn that the truck did pass inspection. Really?
>
> Bob Johnson
> who obviously kept the Healey so I could work on it because I have a big
> distrust for repair shops maybe?
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