So I'm changing out the other ball joint.  I got every thing off.   I have an axe and a vice and I'm doing hammer time on the swing arm trying to get the  ball joint to pop out..   The other one I took to a shop,  they had a metal table and a huge hammer.   10 wacks and it broke out. Why can't i ?  Helpmeee   sc

The reason it won't come out is some German auto worker torqued the nut down and pulled the tapered end of the joint tight into the tapered hole back in 1970 or 71.  On top of the pressure that it was pulled into the hole with back then, it's had nearly 40 years to fuse itself together.  The reason the other one came loose was that when they laid it on the heavy metal table and whacked on the side of the arm with a hammer, it temporarly distored the tapered hole and spit the tapered shaft out kind'a like when you squeeze a watermellon seed between your fingers.  Without a solid surface behid it to stop the shock wave (such as when it's still on the car) the hammer whacks don't distort the whole that much.

Take a puller like one shown above, slide the "hooks" over the arm and center the bolt on the shaft (after you've removed the nut of course) and tighten the bolt on the puller.  It'll usually pop them loose without a lot of effort.

I am about to give up trying to make a suggestion, but since i don't feel like typing a lot, see the above statement.... :roll:

Quote from: "Smelly_Cat"

So I'm changing out the other ball joint.  I got every thing off.   I have an axe and a vice and I'm doing hammer time on the swing arm trying to get the  ball joint to pop out..   The other one I took to a shop,  they had a metal table and a huge hammer.   10 wacks and it broke out. Why can't i ?  Helpmeee   sc

I have a great suggestion . Why in the hell don't you take it to the same shop and have them knock it out before you kill yourself with the axe for crying out loud. Gezzz !! :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

  :shock:  I completely missed the whole axe and vice thing . . . SC . . . please put down the axe.   [-X  You know we aren't supposed to play with sharp objects here in the "triangle" . . .   :lol:

So I take it you have the whole arm off the car?  Are you going to replace the front end bushings while it's apart?

S.C. Get back on your Meds !!    In your day job you don't  work on anything  thats critical to Homeland Security do you ? I can see the headlines now in the Triangle Daily Car Wash & Farm Report:   Local Dude, a Safety Officer at his work cuts off one leg and his head in a attempt  to repair his VW.  He stated that he would return to work very soon when the Doctors gets his head screwed back on right. :shock:

Ok  I buried the hatchet,   in my foot,  ow,  Safety first.  I went to autozone and they had a puller,  Pop goes the weasel.   its off.   I  must be pretty strong.  I broke off 3 bolts,  Got some shiny new ones.   Even got some to replace the ones that did not break.  Replacing perfectly worn and rusty bolts is something new for me,   Now I need to go for a shimy and shake down  drive

Wonder boy  has me  blocked in.  he was was doing the honda. front pads and bent the big ol caliper holding bolt,   CHeap0o honda bolts

Still got the shimmy... you or Stupie?.....

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