i love how you actualy put in some effort to clean the parts, where i live i never had a mechanic clean anything they were working on, good job, keep it up

Pinch bolts only come out with a torch - in Michigan anyway.

@ChasePhilport

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. This was not a fun repair on my 06 forester with 175k. Northern MI.

@mibars

Күн бұрын

Ah dang, I was hoping for an easy fix of my rust bucket

I had to remove my LCA yesterday and I watched this video before doing it just in case, I slid in my 3 feet pry bar thinking it'll be hell since its seen salt for the last 7 years, then... it just came out with almost no force, no pop no grind pleasantly surprised. Now hope I can get the joint out with a few hammer blows.

I love all your videos Man, nice to have a good Subaru mechanic on KZread 😎👍

Making the sti great again.

I was worried about breaking a bolt, so I went to my mechanic for this one. Took a lot of torching to get the pinch bolts out. My car spent about 94k miles (12 years) of it's life in an inlet in New York. So the bolts are all very Rusty. Luckily the body is very rust free. Just a good bit of surface rust that I've been brushing at whenever in under the car. And I undercoated it for this winter.

Sound track? That synth wave is relaxing! Cheers on another great video!

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

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Thank you. This is what I was searching for 👍🏻👍🏻

Hey, those extra hands let you keep your control arm torqued in. I had to pull the ball joints from chinese aluminum control arm, oversized, wrong pinch point, and pushed in with a air hammer 😅. I had the $20 harbor freight ball joint tool for the boss link. The ball joint shot to the other side of the garage. Great video... I need to go back and put that washer under the castle nut. The joint runs loose without it.

It takes me a 10lb slide hammer to get Subaru ball joints out, LOL nice job!

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

Not in the south! Haha 😂

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMechanicj I do charge more for heavy rust, especially if it impedes normal repair. I.e. broken fasteners, having to drill, tap, replace, modify, etc to complete a repair. Flat rate doesn't accommodate for those things. 2010 Outback front wheel bearing pays 0.8hrs. That's for a normal, rust free car. If the hub bearing assembly is seized into the spindle, and the axle is seized into the hub assembly, there's no way you're replacing it in 0.8hrs.

Where I live there is so much rust that we forget about the cotter pin, put the impact on it and shear the pin off and if you want to reuse that ball joint we just drill out the pin and get back to work

@jonk6137

4 жыл бұрын

Same I’m in pittsburgh

Hey man I have a 2003 wrx , I just pulled out the front ball joint and the new one seems a little to big. Any suggestions please

wish the one i changed on my 98 forester few days ago came out that easy. stud wouldnt come out of control arm so i had to cut it above and below it and then drill and work it out that way

Great video , we have a 03 bug eye

Astro makes a puller for Subaru balljoints for like $30. I will never do them again without it.

@davids6106

4 жыл бұрын

Rotoziptheman mine just came in the mail today. Will be put to use soon.

Having a really hard time getting the cone off even with pickle forks. It just will not budge. Do you have any advice?

Would 2019 WRX be same procedure?

Sir..can ur get for me repair kit power steering pump gd sti?

Sir,how hard is it to change the rack on my 2001 outback.3.0 LLBean..to do...haven't done one.

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, never had to replace one. That said, Subaru racks are fairly easy to access compared to most cars.

@allenmariana9502

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrSubaru1387 ok I wasn,t sure I done many on American cars.. one of the guys at Subaru up herecall me you have to drop the front of the exhaust down I can't see that but I'm going to have to check it out and I have to see your shoe boro has remanufactureda brand new one cause 1800 they gave me a price I do that's a little ridiculous but I got to find out for sure from SubaruI didn't know that some things on the Subarus Arnie's repair just watching you I learn more about the Subaru's that I didn't know before because I didn't work on foreign cars

No rust makes this almost look enjoyable. Rust makes this an ordeal.....at least for me. I could have filmed this for days. 100 % Chance the pinch bolt breaks, guaranteed the link ends require dremmeling off and the ball joint itself requires Hercules in chains. And I live in Maryland, god help those in Ohio, pa and ny that receive lake snow.

@Alex35c

4 жыл бұрын

Heat it up, zip it out. Anytime you see lots of rust on a pinch bolt dont even mess around with it. Just grab the torches, you'll break a lot less bolt when their rusted if you heat em up first.

U need to invest on bigger bar and will pop out, leave split pin and gun nut off that they way we do in the real world 👍

Great video! Where did you get the flex pass through ratchet?

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

amzn.to/33kCDG0

Pinch bolt snapped on me in Ohio. Took me a few days and some steal cutting drill bits to drill it all out.

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

Been there before.

Hey great work on the sti, where do you get the repair kit for the power sterring ? And is there one available for my 09 forester 2.5 natural aspirated ?

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

Subaru parts counter, subaruparts.com, or Amazon. It's a Subaru genuine part.

Wouldn't it be easier to use a piece of wood and bang down on the arm to pop the ball out, even if arm is aluminum?

Do you have a video and parts for rebuilding the power steering pump?

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

Put cards in at the beginning linking to the other ps pump rebuild vids.

Heat, PB blaster, Heat, Impact, Heat, Breaker bar and was able to remove pinch bolts. PA car.

Hey bud Do you use the CTA 8881 Subaru ball joints puller for those really stubborn ball joints

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

I usually torch them out.

They got aggravating 🤣

6:19 - took me 3 hours. lol!

@eisiebuddaie3551

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously considering moving down south just to make auto repairs a little easier. My 2009 is so rusted every single nut and bolt I manipulate is a disaster detour waiting to happen.

@gwot

3 жыл бұрын

@@eisiebuddaie3551 every time i get under my car I die a little on the inside. it's just full of oil (undercoating) and rust. That being said, my joint came out fuss free, literally took out the bolt easy, slid in pry bar and it came out with almost no force, but my car's only 7 years old compared to your 11.

@eisiebuddaie3551

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwot 40 mins of air chiseling and screaming on each side did the trick.

These vehicles will always need to have mauntance if rge engine is worrth saving

About to do this on my wrx. Not looking forward to it

How can I message you?

I hate how easy the ball joint came out 😒😒

It is not ball joint. Lower control arms end

@MrSubaru1387

4 жыл бұрын

It is a ball joint.