I'm going to be replacing my rear upper control arms this weekend and I'm wondering if I'll have enough space in that area once the arms are swapped to use a torque wrench for retorquing the ball joint nut? I know from some discussions about swapping rear struts that the area is considered pretty hard to work in, and I ran into a similar issue with my front upper control arms where a torque wrench wouldn't fit in the area once I went for a final install.

 

I just replaced mine. You will not have enough space to get a torque wrench and socket in there unless you remove the whole axle. Luckily i believe the torque spec for the ball joint is 52ft/lbs which is pretty doable with some elbow grease. So i just got a 17mm wrench and gave it a few arm ugga duggas.

 

What you need is maybe a Torque Wrench, not a Torque Ratchet.
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/lase...ve---11-heads/
You can also get crowfoot adapters for Torque Ratchets such as
or
https://www.halfords.com/tools/hand-...et-628174.html

You do need to adjust your torque settings depending on the length of the adapter though.