hi this is David in this video I'm going to be replacing the lower control arm fall joint and this Pontiac Grand Am and up front I want to tell you that I'm going to be taking a control arm out on this video I attempted to do the repair on the vehicle found that what's happening that way so I don't waste your time right up front we'll let you know this is going to be a control arm removal and he decided to watch it appreciate it and if this information keeps you from watching it well I don't waste your time thanks for watching we're going to remove the caliper off of the unbolt caliper and there are two 3/8 inch allen now we're going to try to crack off come off very easily you can see the problem here via Greece Cup has deteriorated on this steering control arm a lower ball joint so we're going to have to replace it already procured a replacement part and I didn't want to have to change out this entire steering lower control arm so this is replacement parts available here and what it means is we have to grind off these riveted fasteners that they put on the steering and on the control arm as original equipment so we'll get out removing this ball joint since the first up will disconnect this motion sensor unplug it and get the cable out of the way okay we need to take out the bar link I'm gonna do this I'm gonna jack up that under the ball joint a bit so we can relieve some tension on the nut that's at the top here it's going to put a 14 millimeter on the top and bottom and turn that bar link out keep the pieces in their proper orientation for reassembly okay the bar link out of there next up this castellated nut here there's a cotter pin in there that whoops to take out and then turn out the castellated nut okay so we got the cotter get a hold of the cotter pin took out the band's and that's that okay so we've got our 18 millimeter wrench on here proceeding to turn it off now to make it of course just a little bit more interesting castle ated nut is topping out on the gear on here on the TV axle so we'll get in there and drive this down and then remove it the rest of the way okay now we're going to separate this ball joint now this seal if this joint wasn't bad we were just trying to take it apart this wouldn't be the way to do it because this would ruin the boot but we're not gonna worry about it okay from that angle and there it is seperated okay so now we can turn this not the rest of the way off okay so next step is we're gonna have to grind off these original factory fittings on here and slip in our new one now that it's ground down can use a shot of all three of these ground downs so I've been struggling to replace this lower ball joint on the control arm haven't been able to get the fasteners out so I decided now to take out the control arm and then try to do it in AI on a workbench okay so here we are in the back with our 20 on top box and open end wrench millimeter cycad um take your time this really didn't come out too badly I was anticipating more trouble okay again there it is okay that rear control arm rear bolt it's pretty straightforward now there's the 15 millimeter a bolt head access through this cutout in the frame but on the back side there's a nut I believe that's also probably about 15 millimeter let's go inside here and I'm not sure how many of the tools in there to get that nut out if it isn't welded in and I suspect it is not welded in yes I've got an 18 millimeter open end wrench in the back here and I'm just going to turn this in the front with my a 15 millimeter ratchet in there and I've got a hold of it at an angle like this with this spot open end wrench so they're going to be able to get her out I can turn a nut off by Hannah I did put some kind of Trent in here to let it sit overnight there falls out okay so we work this out by hook or crook here got this long over but on bolt on here put in safe place should be okay to reuse it's got to get this wiring from the speed sensor out of the way attached to it move that up out of way and now so just pull out but of course nothing comes up quite that easily on a car there it is okay now I can go ahead and and put this in a workbench and get these old fasteners out of there okay so we've had some real difficulty getting these fasteners out so I'm going to do next is try to drill them out from here out of my workbench so first order of business center punch and starting with a small drill bit a good sharp small drill bit will successively drill the set let's try this again their newly sharpened bit I've also recenter punched this because I was off-center a little bit trying to go through the weekend it's good idea to put a little cutting oil in there to which I've done so now we're just successively enlarging the hole it's going up a couple bit sizes at a time here we are in the second one it's taking our time step by step the whole bigger and bigger as you can see we already knocked this one out I'm working on a middle one now just got a 7/16 inch bit in the street I'll thought in a little bit okay I think I see them I think our pins going to come out here well the problem is we've caught the edge of it here the edge of the hole on the inside so I think what we need to do is knock this out over part of it out right on the edge here you can see the other goes I think for the most part we just took it out can this third hole here I had come off Center at the beginning sweat drill that's what happens when you don't aren't careful about centering sort of gradually done is tap the way of this with a small chisel got it got it common now there there it is I'll mangle up