Steering arm swap

[willa]

Just a quick question that i want confirmation on,

I will be able to swap steering arms without having any sort of press tool yeh?

just take undo both the split-pin nuts and bolt on the new ones?

Cheers will

[shift_rook]

well tie rod ends, but you can jsut hit the side of the arm with a hammer and they normally just pop out

[NIZLAH]

never had any luck getting them off with a hammer so I used one of those 2 arm crank pulley pullers... works a treat..

[willa]

haha got 'em with a little bit of hammer action :cool:

[shift_rook]

weren't hittin it hard enough niz, haha, yeah i prefer to use the actual tie rod tools but a hammer isn't bad

[NIZLAH]

lol. . . nah it didn't want to come off anyway or how, even busted the ball joints trying... (which was ok as they were been replaced)

[driftke70]

hit it on both sides at the same time with hamemrs

[blinded]

Undo split pin through tie-rod nut.

Wind off tie-rod nut so it is higher than thread.

Use hammer to hit side of steering arm where tie-rod goes through. (Fairly hard)

Tie-rod should pop out easy enough. If not, give small tap on top of the tie-rod nut (higher than thread so not to damage it)




Easy done.

[ke_70]

i back the nut off about so theres 1 thread inbetween the nut and arm. then i pump the jack up under the arm to give it abit of stability. then hit it as hard as i can. if this doent work the first hit use a puller if you still want the tierod. as you will squash the thread rendering it useless

this is if you can get from the side

and remember never swing a hammer anywere near threads. always put a nut on