How to Test a Ball Joint

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Nate McCullough on behalf of Expert Village. In these clips we are going to talk about the proper way to remove and replace a front wheel drive vehicle ball joint. In this clip, we are going to talk about the last step of in servicing your ball joint. What I am going to do is step into the passenger compartment of the vehicle and pump the brakes up. We had to compress the caliper pistons in order to get some of the components off. Before you drive the vehicle, you are going to have to pump that piston back up into position. If you don't and you try and stop without pumping it up, you won't have no brakes and you may cause yourself some damage, you'll be in an accident. Just mildly stroke the brake pedal approximately a third of the way down, keep stroking it until it gets extremely hard. Once you've done that right there, it's okay to go ahead and fire the engine and take it for a test drive. "