As you may know I am using D44's in the wagon project and don't know the first thing about them.

I have them apart and am looking for advice on what to look out for or any special tech to reassemble them.

These are from an 80 IH Scout.

The first questions I have is what to do with the screw in insert for the top ball joint?


the sleeve helps set the preload for the ball joints, new ball joints have instructions on what to set them to.


The next is how are the ball joints installed in the outer C's?

the ball joints are pressed into the knuckle bottom one first. then the top one.