alright how do you get the end link off @ pitman arm?

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01-22-2011, 01:06 AM

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Great info! I know from personal experience this is the way to do it. Works EVERY time! 1 thing to add, if at first it doesn't come, don't get a bigger hammer, smack really sharp and quick, that will jar it loose more than hitting it with too big a hammer.

Yeah, this job is one of the few times that bigger isn't better. I have even got by using a small claw hammer out on the trail in the woods on my jeep

I also have never had one where I distorted the hole and you shouldn't because the taper of the tierod end won't allow the hole to cave in...you will distort the metal where your hitting the metal.

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01-22-2011, 08:15 AM

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that metal will not distort, the hammer is number 1 method, use it for ball joints too....but now im just repeating everything!

what about a pitman arm puller?

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01-22-2011, 01:37 PM

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that metal will not distort, the hammer is number 1 method, use it for ball joints too....but now im just repeating everything!

what about a pitman arm puller?

Pitman arm puller is great for pulling a pitman arm off the steering box but isn't worth a darn pulling a tierod end out...I was working on a guys truck and he wanted me to use a pitman arm puller to repace the tierod ends, he was watching while i did the work, and when the first one came off using a pitman arm puller, it shot off and flew like 5' and I was like screw this and showed him my way.

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