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I seriously cannot get the upper/thrust control arm ball joint to come out. i got the 22mm bolt and nut off without dropping the frame by using a box wrench and dropping the impact gun from the topside of the engine bay down... but i cannot for the life of me get the ball joint out. i have pickle forks and a tie-rod puller, but the puller doesn't quite fit over the strut plate and such... what to do?
A regular ball joint pickle fork is too wide, the narrow tie-rod fork works better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon K
Oh and a 3 pound sledge hammer (minimum) to pound on it.
Some PBblaster/liquid wrench might help or some here have taken a torch to it.
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Originally Posted by paul p (chi-town)
do I pound inward like jabbing at it? or downward like prying on it? i have new arms and bushings so i dont give a **** about the old ones, but i dont want to bend the plate the ball joint is attached too... and tthen when installing a the new ball joint, is it going to be this damned hard but backwards?
It is a royal pain to get these apart - in my case only the LAST one was terrible - spent 3 days and finally the answer was swing harder. By the way, I damaged the hardened steel ball joint remover, that is how tough it can be to seperate these bad boys.
Good luck,
Scott
up heating the knuckle with my aceteline torch before it would pop out!
I ended up having to go out and buy a bigger hammer. I think i took the nut off then bolted the knuckle back to the car and beat the crap out of the pickle fork for a day or so....
Best of luck.
Bill
Figured it out, made a little thinger bobber, check it out
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/showthr...1260#post41260