Siezed balljoint help

[one eyed mick]

got to agree with the last post in a similar span of exp [51years ] it has NEVER failed , once or twice had to use heat but not often ,if you must use it just heat a small spot at one side ,it's awaste of time unless you have oxy /acet gear a blow lamp does not give enough heat and what it gives is to widely spread ,normal welding tip and heat a peice about 10 mm across .As said that type of splitter is waste of monet not to say time

[andyiley]

^^^^^^^
What he said.

A blow torch just warms the whole area & guess what, it all expands together, no net gain.

What you need the heat to do is get the outer ring to expand a thou' or so over the inner taper shaft & then WHACK IT! DON'T TAP IT! with the 2 hammers, you need to hit it hard & it WILL go after a few choice hits.

[mygoldfishbowl]

Well I guess some things work for some people but not others. I've had my splitter for 20 odd years & it's never let me down once. It even removed a pitman arm from a 30, at the time, year old Chevrolet without a problem.

[StescoG66]

I know the thread has gone on a while....... Well someone more experienced than I had a go today and still it wouldn't budge. .. . In fact we bent the remaining stump!! fk it :-o

[phillpot]

Can't believe the two hammer trick isn't working, but with the top cut off, as you've done, can you not get the arm off and get it on a hydraulic press?


If access to a press isn't easy I guess drilling it out is another option?

[StescoG66]

The entire strut is now removed. I'll get it pressed out, somehow . . . . . Vice and socket is the next attempt . . . .

[DrDeAtH]

Try heating the stub, and then spraying some plusgas onto the broken bit of the balljoint before whacking the vice pressure up. The spray will cool the balljoint and shrink it away from the strut.

[DRCAGE]

Had similar grief with one on a Civic ep3, ended up using a huge machine vice and a 2 metre long bar!

[Evoluzione]

Be careful with ball joints and heat.
At my local garage a chap was heating one up on the floor he'd taken off a car (complete with connected components), as he leant back it exploded.

It's still imbedded into the underside of the roof.

[phillpot]

Evoluzione said:

a chap was heating one up on the floor he'd taken off a car (complete with connected components), as he leant back it exploded.

What exploded? the joint or the floor?

Never heat things up on a concrete floor..... concrete is full of tiny air bubbles... the air expands and floor goes bang!

[Evoluzione]

phillpot said:

Evoluzione said:

a chap was heating one up on the floor he'd taken off a car (complete with connected components), as he leant back it exploded.

What exploded? the joint or the floor?

Never heat things up on a concrete floor..... concrete is full of tiny air bubbles... the air expands and floor goes bang!

The joint!

[dblack1]

Evoluzione said:

Be careful with ball joints and heat.
At my local garage a chap was heating one up on the floor he'd taken off a car (complete with connected components), as he leant back it exploded.

It's still imbedded into the underside of the roof.

You should write erotic novels, and this post should get a sticky.