Okay I got the gear box out. How much do they weigh?

Also, I figured out something that's probably been done a few thousand times already.

I have a two armed puller that I couldn't keep grabbing the pitman arm with. I would2[= tighten the " screw" and it would pop off. So I took a hose clamp and fitted it over the " shoulders" of the puller arms and tightened it, then I tightened screw on the puller. So I did this a couple of iterations and then started slowly screwing in the puller screw. POP!!! Friggin A, those are the moments you live or when you do this stuff. Fun man!

 

Hey, great idea. I'll have to put another memo in my tool box, another use for hose clamps.

 

Yeah and I also need to include..... Patience. At least a bucketful!

 

I think most of us know that "POP" sound very well. Then the excitement level, YES, I GOT YOU!!!!! The last time I did that, my wife poked her head outside and asked, "Who are you talking to"? I told her "the bearing I just pulled off". Of course, she shook her head and went back inside. (They don't understand.)

 

No truer words ( except Gods ) have ever been spoken. You know in the bible it never says understand your wife. It just tells us to love them!