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Icon14 How to how to tell if your ball joints are bad

Hey guys,

So here is my latest video on how to tell if your ball joints are bad.


Let me know what you think!
**Also, if the video was helpful, give it a “thumbs up” on YouTube (it helps me out, thanks)***
 

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Originally Posted by RonD
It say Video Unavailable
Fixed it. Youtube Couldnt process my video (first time that ever happened). Thanks for the heads up!
 
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Good Video...
 
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Originally Posted by Jrevans2002
Good Video...
Thanks man!
 
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I had some creek, I said creek cause it was only doing it once... I had to re-grease the glide pins again...the lower one was not quite as free moving as the top one....all new hardware last year and I greased the pins back in April when I started hearing that one creek sound.
 
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Good video.
Shows the right way to check things out for yourself.
 
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Originally Posted by Jrevans2002
I had some creek, I said creek cause it was only doing it once... I had to re-grease the glide pins again...the lower one was not quite as free moving as the top one....all new hardware last year and I greased the pins back in April when I started hearing that one creek sound.
Nice! So the guide pins were causing the creek? Would have never guessed that! Did you have uneven break wear?

Originally Posted by Scrambler82
Good video.
Shows the right way to check things out for yourself.
Thanks man! That is my goal with these how to videos! Appreciate the feedback!
 
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