1994 explorer sport

[ajz399]

I just bought a 1994 explorer sport 90000 miles for $1800,Im putting new ball joints,u-joints, ra bushings and wheel bearings on for $1400. am I getting scammed?

 

[Creager]

ball joints = 4 dollars x4
RA bushings = 5 dollars x2
wheel bearings (quality) = 10 dollars x4
U-Joints = 15 dollars x2 (RWD?)

you need a special tool to do the ball joints and u joints, which is 20 bucks to own.

If you have never done this kind of work before... i would say 4-5 hours on ball joints. 2 hours for u-joints. 1-3 hours for radius arm bushings (depending on the method you use) and another hour for wheel bearings

having a shop do it for $1400 is Definatly way too high for me. But i dunno. im not sure of the going rate most shops charge to do work like this.

 

[cainfan4u]

is the grease free???

 

[Vanquish502]

All of that stuff is something you can do yourself wether you've done it before or not. You learn how to do it, when youre taking the old stuff out/apart. Taking the old parts out, you see how the new parts go in.

 

[Rhett]

I just bought a 1994 explorer sport 90000 miles for $1800,Im putting new ball joints,u-joints, ra bushings and wheel bearings on for $1400. am I getting scammed?

Well $1800 for a running 4x4 truck with only 90000 miles on it seems like a good deal to me...is the drivetrain sound? $1800 pretty nice if so. But $1400 for all of that front-end work seems high to me. That IS high for around here...

 

[Jason94sport]

I wouldn't spend $1400 for that work. Say parts are on the high side of $100. Even if labor was $100/hour that's 13 hours of work. That's way too much. It should be about 6-8 shop hours. If you have the $$ I'd say go ahead & let a shop do it.(some other shop) It's a PITA to do it yourself. I know I'm the minority about not doing the work your self, but if you search you will read about what's involved. Is it worth your time & fustration?

 

[Creager]

If you plan on doing the work yourself. You are going to need some special tools, to make the jobs much easier

Special Tools needed to do above fixes.

- The Wheel bearings are going to need a spindle nut tool. approx $10-50 bucks depending on where you go. For packing them i recommend going by sears and getting one of those grease bladders. It just makes packing easy, and fast.

- The Ball Joints are going to need a press of a sort. a C-Frame Press ($20 bucks at www.harborfreight.com) will do the Job.

- Radius arms. No special tools need. Unless you want to do the easy way and grind off the rivets. It makes short of the work... instead of removing everything else

- U-joints will also need some sort of press. The C-frame press for the Ball joints doubles for this. Or you can use a small vice-clamp.

If anything do the U-joints and wheel joints. Those are easy jobs, and take less then an hour or so to do.