Splitting ball joints

[DI driver 54]

New day, new topic...

I'm building a DF03 and will need to pop the shock and turnbuckle off to adjust the diff but they are a really tight fit - how do you pop the shock and turnbuckle off the ball without bending or breaking something?

Thanks,

Huw.

[ThunderDragonCy 7886]

I use needle nose pliers to lever them off. 

[Superluminal 3750]

Probably not the right way but I use a small flat bladed screw driver with some rag around the end to prevent scratches - then find a suitably robust piece of chassis to lever against.

I dont have the strength in my puny girly fingers to do it without some sort of tool.

This is one of my pet hates with turn buckles - I find that the torque you need on the spanner to turn the thread within the plastic cup tends to pop it off the ball anyway. By which point you might as well adjust it manually.

[TWINSET 1793]

get tooled up; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RC-Car-Tool-Metal-Aluminum-Ball-End-Remover-for-HSP-Tamiya-Traxxas-HPI-RC-Car-/254005390197

[DI driver 54]

2 hours ago, TWINSET said:

get tooled up; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RC-Car-Tool-Metal-Aluminum-Ball-End-Remover-for-HSP-Tamiya-Traxxas-HPI-RC-Car-/254005390197

Just bought something similar from here: https://www.mwmwarbirds.co.uk/

Anything to make me less ham-fisted.

Thanks all.

[Juls1 1661]

I normally just carefully over rotate them with small need nose pliers. They come off no problems for me. Back in the day I ran rc10gt in full anger we used RPM ball cups cause standard ones popped off too easy. The rpm ones where not fun to remove! 

[Nicadraus 6201]

3 hours ago, TWINSET said:

get tooled up; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RC-Car-Tool-Metal-Aluminum-Ball-End-Remover-for-HSP-Tamiya-Traxxas-HPI-RC-Car-/254005390197

I have the same tool. Just be careful using this on anodized-color balls because it scratches them.

[speedy_w_beans 4272]

I try to avoid cycling ball cups as much as possible.  With the DF03, you can always remove an inner hinge pin by removing an e-clip, or you can remove an outer hinge pin by removing the set screw from the upright.

[DI driver 54]

5 minutes ago, speedy_w_beans said:

I try to avoid cycling ball cups as much as possible.  With the DF03, you can always remove an inner hinge pin by removing an e-clip, or you can remove an outer hinge pin by removing the set screw from the upright.

Great idea!!