🔧 GEARWRENCH 3916D Ball Joint Separator: Efficient and Reliable Tool for Easy Auto Repair Review

This device worked where the others didn't. The ball joints I wanted to remove were on a 1999 Miata. Because these are original parts, corrosion has held them back for almost 20 years. I bought an old ball joint tool here from Revain a few years ago but it wouldn't move the bolts and broke in the process. GearWrench was highly recommended by other reviewers, so I decided to give it a try. Within minutes of using this tool, the ball joint dislodged from the driver's side knuckle with a…

I have been doing suspension work from time to time for years. The job almost always ends with me sitting in a pile of rusty shavings with a sledgehammer and tie rod fork and cursing more than a truck driver in a traffic jam. Finally the time came when my trusty 2001 RAV-4 needed some suspension work and it had well over 350,000 miles of wear and rust which made the job even more enjoyable. I needed a better solution. Enter this GearWrench tool. I ripped tires, disc and brakes off without…

I was trying to remove the original wishbones from my BMW Z3 to replace them and I spent days hammering the wishbones and knuckles and mutilating the old ball joints with a cucumber fork (of course I've done it several times penetrating oil used) . I loosened the inner ball joints with a cucumber fork, but I couldn't get the outer ball joints to come loose from the knuckles. The problem is that on at least some BMWs (like the Z3), the linkage balls aren't rigidly connected to the wishbones, but