Removing the front upper ball joint?

[94Griff500]

What's the best way to remove the large lower nut at the spindle end of the ball joint where it attaches to the spindle?
The 4 upper bolts are easy to get to, but not the lower ball joint nut....
That nut is inside a cavity that is hard to get at / remove as there is limited space for tools or movement to get the nut off.
Thxs for any/all help!
Doug

[Adrian@]

What you are working on is the conversion from strut to ball joint 'knuckle adaptor' TVR C0016 (which used to come as a two part assembly), as such it is a loose item, that IF you undo/remove the clamp bolt (as you would to remove the strut/shocker on a Ford Sierra) it would slide up and out of the upright. TVR on production, put a weld at the lower end of the tag that stops it from sliding up. I have frequently dressed the weld off and taken the top ball joint to a vice (the nut rusts and I have drilled the nut out). Replacing is as simple as refitting and adding the safety weld again.



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Edited by Adrian@ on Friday 17th April 16:46

[sixor8]

When I changed the front suspension arms on a Chimaera in 2018, I removed the hubs from the car to enable this. Of course, this meant removing the brake calipers too, more work than I'd hoped. I ended up changing the top and bottom balljoints too.

[phillpot]

Socket, short extension and a ratchet . . . . Don't see the problem?

[Sardonicus]

phillpot said:

Socket, short extension and a ratchet . . . . Don't see the problem?

< This, 19mm IIRC and seeing as the joint is scrap then just use a forked balljoint splitter (these usually destroy the dust boot) job jobbed