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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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11/26/19 04:46 PM
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I did mine for about $40 bucks. So let's put this in perspective. He'll have $40 to $50 bucks in the ball joints. Jack the front end up. pull both front tires pull the rotors. use a tool you can ret at Autozone which they own. remove key and nut. Press out old ball joint with special tool and impact wrench. Install new ball joints the same way. Then put it back together in reverse. Grease new ball joints if he uses good ones. So they are only making about $1,725.00 in profit and labor. Now does it sound like a good deal. Oh and it's gonna take a decent mechanic about an hour.
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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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11/26/19 06:09 PM
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I did mine for about $40 bucks. So let's put this in perspective. He'll have $40 to $50 bucks in the ball joints. Jack the front end up. pull both front tires pull the rotors. use a tool you can ret at Autozone which they own. remove key and nut. Press out old ball joint with special tool and impact wrench. Install new ball joints the same way. Then put it back together in reverse. Grease new ball joints if he uses good ones. So they are only making about $1,725.00 in profit and labor. Now does it sound like a good deal. Oh and it's gonna take a decent mechanic about an hour. You bought 4 ball joints for $40. What third world impoverished country did you get those in????? My father just did his 08 half ton Chevy and the parts alone were at least $300
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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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12/05/19 08:34 PM
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Maybe he went to a junkyard with late model wrecked vehicles in the yard. We got a junk yard like that.
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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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12/07/19 06:13 PM
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Order the upper and lower control arms from Detroit Axel and do it yourself. !'m 72 and just replaced mine on my '99 Silverado. Got less than $200 in it. Just looked yours up. $67.74 for both uppers, $97.24 for both lowers with 2 new tie rod ends and other stuff. You can buy one of those low-profile floor jacks from harbor Freight for about $70 to lift the lowers when you put in the springs and still be under $275. The part #s for yours are Lowers----K80669 or K80670 Uppers --- 80010-BA Detroit Axel manufactures parts for new cars.
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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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12/07/19 06:27 PM
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I did mine for about $40 bucks. So let's put this in perspective. He'll have $40 to $50 bucks in the ball joints. Jack the front end up. pull both front tires pull the rotors. use a tool you can ret at Autozone which they own. remove key and nut. Press out old ball joint with special tool and impact wrench. Install new ball joints the same way. Then put it back together in reverse. Grease new ball joints if he uses good ones. So they are only making about $1,725.00 in profit and labor. Now does it sound like a good deal. Oh and it's gonna take a decent mechanic about an hour. You bought 4 ball joints for $40. What third world impoverished country did you get those in????? My father just did his 08 half ton Chevy and the parts alone were at least $300 The same third world impoverished country GM got theirs from
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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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12/07/19 06:32 PM
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I did mine for about $40 bucks. So let's put this in perspective. He'll have $40 to $50 bucks in the ball joints. Jack the front end up. pull both front tires pull the rotors. use a tool you can ret at Autozone which they own. remove key and nut. Press out old ball joint with special tool and impact wrench. Install new ball joints the same way. Then put it back together in reverse. Grease new ball joints if he uses good ones. So they are only making about $1,725.00 in profit and labor. Now does it sound like a good deal. Oh and it's gonna take a decent mechanic about an hour. You bought 4 ball joints for $40. What third world impoverished country did you get those in????? My father just did his 08 half ton Chevy and the parts alone were at least $300 Probably bought the store brand super economy joints, or worse yet maybe they were dorman joints. Dorman doesnt make car parts that sell turds shaped like car parts.
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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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12/08/19 08:53 PM
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Thanks for everyone's advice. I ended up buying the parts for $200 and have a buddy with a lift and all the tools and stuff. We put them on today, took every bit of 5 hours and a oxy-acetylene torch but we got em done.
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Re: ever replaced ball joints 07-13 silverado?
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12/08/19 10:23 PM
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One of the best resources in YOU-Tube. You can also get some of the tools from auto-zone. You pay for them and whey you bring that back you get your money back, like a rent. I just take my lap top out and plug it in a follow along with that they are doing. I watch to operation first to see if I need any special tools. Glad you saved yourself a lot of money, AND you know it was done right!
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