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Steering Bush?
L90OOK:
Changing the drop arm ball joint is a PITA. It's the inner race on the drop arm that is the hardest to replace, especially if your leaving the arm on the PAS box.
Personally I would change the whole arm for a recon one about £26 IIRC.
When I do mine I undo the large, nut holding the arm on, about a turn, then lock it back off in that position.
Give the splines on the PAS box a good coating of oil & drive it around for a week, regularly covering splines with oil...& check securing nut is still secure with locking tab. With use the arm drop slightly onto securing nut & will come off easily.
Saves a whole load of hassle with pullers etc...
Enjoy :lol:
BigSi:
So the only thing holding the arm on it that large nut? So if I got the whole arm (with the joint in place), it would be a lot easier. I haven't had much of a problem with any of the nuts so far, so Im hopping the nut securing the arm would also come free with a little elbow grease!
http://www.paddockspares.com/pp/DEFENDER/Steering/Drop_arm_and_kit_for_manual_box_RHD.html
L90OOK:
Thats the one...it's not the nut that's hard to get off...it's the arm :evil:
The damn thing is usually stuck on there & have seen many hydraulic pullers fail at trying to remove them :roll:
graham2306:
The nut holding the arm on will come off fairly easy but the arm then has to come off of the box. Hitting it with a big hammer won't do the arm or the box much good, as has been said earlier sometimes they don't come off with a 3 tonne puller. I would take the lots of penetrating oil approach now and see if you can move it. The shaft that it fits onto is splined so it has plenty of surface area to get stuck on.
Graham
extreme90:
--- Quote from: "jeep94" ---So the only thing holding the arm on it that large nut? So if I got the whole arm (with the joint in place), it would be a lot easier. I haven't had much of a problem with any of the nuts so far, so Im hopping the nut securing the arm would also come free with a little elbow grease!
http://www.paddockspares.com/pp/DEFENDER/Steering/Drop_arm_and_kit_for_manual_box_RHD.html
--- End quote ---
the nut will suprise you as to how easily it will come undone, its had many years of oil'in :wink:
just the drop arm itself it the stubborn one, i do as L9OOK has said, drive around onit for a week, but if in a hurry i carry all the kit to change it, go up to a rutted and pot, holed lane, undo the nut down to near the end then go belting up the lane until it drops off
dan
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