replacing front ball joints on vr vs

[GTP 85]

Hi all. Well I've done many a repair to commos b4, but never had to do front ball joints on vr vs before.

When I bought my car it came with a new pair of ball joints for free. They need replacing pretty badly now.

haven't taken much notice of vr vs ball joints in the past.. But I thought they were fixed on by rivet style bolts? Can these b replaced on the DIY?

someone who's done it before, swing some advice my way pls!

 

[ephect]

Yea if untouched they are the rivits from factory, which need angle grinding off then using the bolts supplied and ur done.

 

[GTP 85]

Mine came with some black high tensile bolts but some were missing. I just figured the previous owner just tried to match up some bolts. Therefore I take it it's safe to use high tensile bolts to replace the rivets?

 

[Chrispy]

Yep, my replacement ball joints came with high tensile bolts. I just broke the collet on the rivet with a hammer and chisel, ball joint just falls off afterwards.

 

[jas98]

when i replaced my ball joints on me vs i kept getting knocking noises....so cheked if everything was tight to specifications....found that tightening the ball joint bolts helped. then it started doing it again, so i went to bolt joint spent a whole 4 bucks for some high tensile allen head bolts/nuts/wash's. took old bolts out....they were all about to snap!!!! ......have not had a problem since


inotherwords....Dont use the supplied bolts!! i used 2 different branded ball joints and both sides came with different looiking bolts and both sides almost snaped

 

[Brett_jjj]

Ive also had replacement balljoint bolts fail, twice. (theres an old post on here somewhere about it). When they first snapped, it put me into a gutter , luckily nothing was really damaged that badly.. The 3 bolts just snapped clean in half when I braked heaps hard. I ended up going back to where I bought the ball joints from, and they gave me 2 more replacement ball joints, which I fitted, and when I checked them after a week or so , the bolts seemed to have stretched and were about to break again. I ended up buying either grade 8 or 9 bolts and nuts, I dont rememeber which, and its been fine ever since.

 

[jas98]

yeah those bolts say there high tensile (one that come with ball joints) but really there ****. i actually looked at mine after i saw your post Brett_jjj and thorght that i should replace the bolts, have not have a problem since and i feell so much safer lol. have not had a problem since

 

[redvpsenator]

Buy quality joints and use locktite. TWR part no's JBJ7530 & JBJ7543.