hey im putting my passenger side lower ball jonit back on and when i get it 4-5 thrads i tighten it down and it starts to spins the whole balljonit.any ideal how to stop it from spining??there brand new not even a year old.

 

when you undid them did you hit them with a hammerthat can cause this problem what i allways do when this happens is grab the top of the ball joint with some vise-grips and tread the bolt all the way up than try putting it back togeather and see if it does the same thing again

 

no i didnt hit it.i wish i had a pair of vise-gribs to try that.any more ideals????????

 

Impact tools?

 

have someone stand on the hub to give the ball joint more seating pressure so it wont spin as easy.

 

i got an impat gun im praying that will spin it up there.and btw i had a full growen guy standing on it and it still spun?comes off faily easy?

 

grab the tapered shaft with channel locks or vice grips and get the right size die its 12x1.25 i believe, and run it to clean the threads and the nut will go on like butter, i did this to mine awhile ago and the nuts thread on much easier, or just buy new ball joints

 

its not even a year old yet??

 

Impact should get it on, although if it spins you have probably degraded the performance of the ball joint enough to make it unsafe.

 

use a new castle nut or retap the old castle nut threads.

 

??? Wrong part.

 

its pretty typical the threads get messed up on either the castle nut or balljoint just enough that they provide enough friction to overcome the friction in the balljoint and tapered surface.

carefully popping off the balljoint and using new castle nuts or retapping them helps.

 

lmao NO im not useing the wrong part.