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Sorry all. This does have the clips, they were just too rusty for me to differentiate from the yoke. I just removed the first one. Thanks everyone!

So just get a chisel and attack the plastic? All the videos I'm seeing show people melting them with an oxy torch. Thanks.

Thanks. I got past all of that. My top one had a flange. Who knows what someone installed? Trying to get these plastic u-joints apart now.

Was attempting to do this and I just noticed that the u-joints don't have the 3/4 moon clips that everyone online says they should have. Does that mean I have the godawful plastic ones that you have to melt out? Any tips on doing that? I've never dealt with them before.

Late update on this. I finally just pushed that upper balljoint out. It indeed had a cut on the bottom for a C-clip. Must have been some oddball part. The shaft for the joint looks just fine though. I'm going to pressure wash everything now and then change out the u-joint then reassemble...

I hear ya. I'm going to try to dial in the steering box after I get this back together. I figured replacing everything up front was worth the effort since this is a 40 year old truck I intend on keeping forever. I have heard pops and things steering it at a stop, so I suspect the u-joints are...

Victory! Back to the ball joint now.

I'm tired of playing around with this. I just put the nuts back on the studs and sanded both down with a dremel. I'm planning to weld the nuts to the studs with a flux core rod. I figure this will put a ton of heat into the cone washer and hopefully give me a method to back everything off...

I have already knackered two studs and I'm going to replace them all. Just trying to get the parts apart at this point and clean up the scuffs with a die grinder. At this point I'm assuming the torch will be involved.

People behind me have seen it, but I can feel it driving. It comes and then goes away, usually after a turn in the opposite direction. Going around corners usually triggers it. There is a 1.5" lift but no blocks. I found that the nuts were not torqued to spec by the shop that did the work...

So, I'm stuck. I was going to push out the bearing, but my tool can't get around the steering arm. So I started removing that and I'm ashamed to say I've spent hours trying to get it off. I found out about the cone washer issue, and I was able to knock one out with a punch. The others I...

It looks like there is a cutout for a snap ring. I think that's the issue. I can't get to that point. Will explain in next post.

The steering on my M1009 had become terrifying with it dog walking down the road, so I'm in the process of replacing all of the front ball joints and u-joints. On the steering knuckle, I just popped the lower ball joint loose. I was about to do the top and noticed something strange. There is...