How to Use a Pickle Fork to Remove the Upper & Lower Ball Joints

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Part of the video series: Pt. 1: How to Install High Performance Brakes on a Custom Car

Summary: Use a pickle fork to remove the upper and lower ball joints by knocking them loose; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-remodeling video.

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By Doug Jenkins
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Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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"Hi, I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Mark has a shorter, fatter pickle fork and he's going to knock these ball joints loose, upper and lower. You saw the car come up there a little bit once the tension was released. The reason they need to be bashed apart like it is they are taper fit. They are tapered into the spindle so you can see there on the bottom ball joint, it's exposed now. They're tapered as they go into the spindle and so there's a little friction there."

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