Replacing the ball joint on the Grant
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When knocking from the front suspension appears, especially when driving on an uneven road with shallow pits or potholes, you should pay attention to the condition of the ball joints. On Grant, factory balls can easily travel more than 100 km in normal operation, but there are times when this has to be done much more often. It is for such cases that this article will be written.
In order to replace the ball joints on the Grant, we need the following tool:
- Hammer
- Pry bar
- Puller
- Key for 17 and 19
- Torx e12 head
- Ratchet or crank
Photo report on the replacement of ball joints Lada Grants
The first step is to drive the car onto a lift or raise its front part with a jack. Then remove the wheel to gain access to the front suspension components.
Then we unscrew the two bolts securing the support to the steering knuckle, as shown in the photo below:
Then, using a 19 key, we break off, but not completely unscrew the lower nut fastening to the front suspension arm Grants:
And now you can press the ball bearing pin out of the lever using a special puller, or use a hammer and a pry bar for this purpose.
After removing the finger, you can remove the support completely, take the lever to the side:
If you cannot move the lever to the side using a pry bar, you can use a jack and a brick, as is clearly shown in the photo below.
We take a new ball, remove the boot and push it well inside with grease, such as Litol. Then you can install a new ball in its place. Of course, you will have to suffer pretty much until the support falls into place, but if you have a jack and mounts, everything can be done without any problems.
We tighten all the bolts and the nut with the required moment of force and put all the other parts in their places. On this, this repair of Lada Grants can be considered complete. The price of a new ball joint is no more than 400 rubles for an original product from Avtovaz. There are cheaper options, but in this case, you can save both on price and quality!
Video review of replacing ball joints on the Grant
For those who are too lazy to understand the photo reports, you can show everything clearly and easily using the example of a video review, which was taken from open sources.
This concludes this repair report.
