Thrust Arms: I give up....

[uscharalph]

I took the nut off the joint. Hand tightened it back on to just cover the threads. Then held my air chisel with a blunt bit on it and knocked them right out. Only took a couple of minutes per side with air tools.

Air Tools!!!!!

[pyro]

use a puller to get it off. thats what i did worked like a charm

[infinity5]

Thanks bill. The only think i'm concerned about is time. I'm not sure i can wait for harbor freight to ship me a grinder. I really need the car by friday morning, and at the latest sunday morning. But that gives me an idea, i might check around some local places or walmart for an el-chepo grinding device.

Anyway, the car is totally back together and sitting on its own 4-feet =D !!! the only thing to do is torque the bushing bolts tomorrow morning and she'll be good to go! I hope i put everything back together correctly

oooo i miss driving it so much. i hope i did everyhting right.

[Bill R.]

one in gainesville, looks like ocala is the closest

Thanks bill. The only think i'm concerned about is time. I'm not sure i can wait for harbor freight to ship me a grinder. I really need the car by friday morning, and at the latest sunday morning. But that gives me an idea, i might check around some local places or walmart for an el-chepo grinding device.

Anyway, the car is totally back together and sitting on its own 4-feet =D !!! the only thing to do is torque the bushing bolts tomorrow morning and she'll be good to go! I hope i put everything back together correctly

oooo i miss driving it so much. i hope i did everyhting right.

[ryan roopnarine]

ive unfortunately been to ho-cala to deal with the highway patrol and eventually the court. one time went to the harbor freight for some $4 volt ohm meters and a spring loaded punch. drive there is 35 miles, back 70......at 2.35 for 87 octane.....plus time....

i got my allen key "made" at a local machine shop, as they were not doing much. they insisted that they grind the burs off the main key and the bit...cost to me was $5. grinding down a wrench might be a bit more. but if you color in/mark the parts you want removed from the thing, they might fancy it easy.

$hit. forgot. if you drive over to my apartment, you can borrow my 7/8(whatever gale said was equivalent) wrench that i've already ground down for the purpose, you can borrow it for a couple days, with the understanding that i'd like it back.

[ryan roopnarine]

bump.

if you want to borrow my ground down wrench, pm me or indicate here and ill pm you my telephone no and address.

[infinity5]

Ryan, check your pm.

Hmm, i forgot to put loctite on the steering knuckle to strut housing bolts....mmm... think they'll fall apart?

[TheDuke]

Pittman tie-rod puller, you can get it at Pepboys for about $30. Took me less than a minute to take them off. Worst part was removing the bushing side of the arm...