I know this has been beat to death over the years but I have a question. I never considered XRF because I thought they were high priced but checking I see they are cheaper than NAPA and OEM Spicer. Are they any good?

Hmmmm.. where did all my pics. go? Here they are hopefully]

Edited October 1, 20159 yr by dave110

OMG! Look at all that nature's thread locker! (Rust!)

Yeah, Nobody in any other state needs to tell me about road salt. PA. has got to be the worst.

Yeah, Nobody in any other state needs to tell me about road salt. PA. has got to be the worst.

Probably why the Amish still use a horse and buggy 

Ha, Ha, but seriously, the road salt does wreak havoc on the wooden buggy wheels and steel rims. Salt shrinks the wood and they need to refit the rim on. Blacksmith has a special tool he showed me to do the job. Kinda makes ball joints seem easy

Ha, Ha, but seriously, the road salt does wreak havoc on the wooden buggy wheels and steel rims. Salt shrinks the wood and they need to refit the rim on. Blacksmith has a special tool he showed me to do the job. Kinda makes ball joints seem easy

I hear you there. Salt dries up just about everything and swells steel up with rust. Seems a great solution would be to paint everything once a year.

 

Now I am curious to see this wagon wheel tool. 

I've already posted Weiser Idaho salt pile.

 

The only thing I can suggest is getting a small hone stone/brush and lightly hone out the ball joint holes to clean them up a bit. Also make sure to coat the holes with anti-seize so maybe next time its not so bad.

 

As for rust even though Idaho pours the salt and stone down on the highways. I lucky so for to keeping the rust at bay.

Glad you got them in there.

 

I've already posted Weiser Idaho salt pile.

 

 

The only thing I can suggest is getting a small hone stone/brush and lightly hone out the ball joint holes to clean them up a bit. Also make sure to coat the holes with anti-seize so maybe next time its not so bad.

 

As for rust even though Idaho pours the salt and stone down on the highways. I lucky so for to keeping the rust at bay.

 

Getting the joints out was really no problem. Much easier than I thought. It's not the rock salt that's so bad but the liquid pre- treat they started using a few years back. Sodium hydro chloride or something. All the DOT trucks have a big liquid tank on the back now and what ever that stuff is eats vehicles for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Sounds like the mag-chloride colorado uses...nasty stuff!

Maybe it's just me but I think it's absolutely retarded that I to have order Spicer ball joints because not a single damn parts store carries them. 

China made stuff first before USA made don't you know.

Isn't that the truth and then some. 

On a completely different note, how do I "like" someone's post on here?

Edited November 22, 20159 yr by The_Hammer

bottom right of the post corner should be a "like this "button.

This is all I see.

 

oh you are on your phone,

 

Let me look

 

 

humm mine shows "like" in the bottom left on my phone.  What phone are you using?  What does the "+" do?

Edited November 23, 20159 yr by Me78569

Mine also shows on the lower left

The "+" is a multi-quote thing. 

I'm not a paying member yet and yall' are, maybe that's the problem? 

maybe,

 

I looked through the settings, but I didn't see any permission for it.  Ill dig some more.

How do I become a paying member?