Poxy soddin balljoints! How the hell do you get them orfff!

[g.lewarne]

be careful when heating....

they can pretty much explode and come flying out...

when i did mine i left the securing bolts for the ball joint itself on, i loosened them but left them holding the balljoint in place on the strut. when they popped all that happened was the lower arm went down, no danger of balljoint/face interfacing that way

[RyanRs]

Well, I have got them off now! borrowed a scissor tool from a workshop .. The tool did the job in no time! However, this was no ordinary scissor tool ;D

Tadaaaa!


The workshop is for our lorries and thats the smallest they had the top bolt head was 24mm just to get an idea on the size

Thanks for all the help with this anyways

[ashley]

Nicely done

Exactly the same tool I used on mine, I had it all lined up in the vice with the ball joint facing an old bucket full of sand- just as well: when they finally let go they pretty much exploded out like bullets

[vmaxnick]

You're hitting the wrong bit! You don't hit the thread, you hit the arm itself where the taper sits in. get a glamorous assistant to apply leverage between the arm and the ball, hold a big hammer against one side of the arm and hit the arm right on the taper seat with a smaller hammer. It will pop right out. If it doesn't, as someone else suggested, you aren't hitting it hard enough.
If this method won't shift it, a balljoint splitter won't either.
Try to do it with one big hit rather than lots of little blows to avoid damage to the arm.

[SFLee]

i use the tool above
failed first time then when i did have more time it come off when i found a better position to place it

and you need the heavy duty version

[T.F.S.]

i have snapped those splitters in half too...