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Rear axle/ a frame ball joint removal - HELLLLP!!!

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hairyasswelder:

--- Quote from: Geoff30 on October 27, 2008, 20:22:16 ---Will have to try a nut splitter

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Would have thought access would be tight for a nut splitter? Maybe a good quality sharp chisel? (careful  ;))

When I did mine a 30mm 1/2"drive socket fit if I knocked the socket on first then put a 4" extension onto it then attatched the rattle gun (air impact wrench)

Geoff30:
I am coming to the conclusion that a chisel is definitely needed for the one currently on my landy, but the new axle I will try knocking a socket onto 1st. Wondering if I should ever have started this  :'(

stuntman:
Ah, but you'll have a smug sense of achievement when it's done  :P

Porny:
The other way to get the bolt off is a drill...

Centre punch the middle of one of the bolt flats, and keep drilling though the nut, the ball joint thread, and the other side of the bolt.  Start off with a smallish drill bit, and keep going up in size until you get to the edge of the bolt (or run out of drill bits) and then with a chisel it should be easy to cut through the rest of the nut.  You've just got to get the ball joint out of it's socket then!

The only downside is that this will trash your ball joint... but then if it's that corroded, it will probably need changing anyway.

In all honesty, it's probably easier to remove the two long bolts that go through the a-frame arms and the ball joint mounting/casting and get a replacement ball joint and casting for the new axle.


Ian

lukeLR90:
use hammer and a chisel on the end of the nut thread and hit it

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