big ol' "ARGH" with ball joints

[calimus@techography.net (Calimus)]

Joe,

    Recently went through this with my 16v when I was replacing the
bearings.  I had the same problem, I pryed the clamping ends aprart as best
I could and even used a crowbar with no luck of getting the disk assembly to
come off the ball joint.  I wound up using a pickle-fork (looks like a fat
tuning fork) between the ball joint and the assembly and then having a
friend place his foot on the a-arm and pull on the assebly as I pried like a
mofo with the pickle-fork.  A few minuets of that and I gave up.  Then my
friend just desided to give the thing one last yank and it popped off.
Needless to day, when I put it back on, the ball-joint stub got a nice dose
of axle grease to help prevent that episode from happening again.

William
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Doty" <rocco2nr@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:12 PM
Subject: big ol' "ARGH" with ball joints


> I intended to change my suspension bushings on the front a-arms but it
> turned into a nightmare when the ball joint shafts wouldn't come out.  I
> pried, hammered from the top, and cursed for 2 hours.  How do these things
> come out?  I couldn't make them budge at all.
>
> I assume it's nearly impossible to change the bushings without removing
the
> entire a-arm.
>
> thanks
> Joe
>
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