Chuck,
If you are going to replace the boots anyway, I'd use the pickly fork
splitter. They are cheap from Pep Boys. Note that you want the
narrower of the two that are commonly sold. The trick of banging on
the steering arm end with two hammers never worked for me.
Jeff
At 2:39 PM -0500 11/15/01, chuck wrote:
>Hey Guyz,
>
>While filling the front shocks I nothiced that the boots
>over the ball joints on the tie rod ends are looking like
>they really wanna be replaced. Before I destroy the
>front end, what are the acceptable practices for
>disassembling that joint? Seems like if I loosen the
>nyloc nut on the ball joint, and tap the end of the
>ball joint bolt down, it should release enough to
>let me replace the boot. But .... it won't budge.
>Besides "use a bigger hammer" technology, what
>advice can you offer.
>
>thanks,
>
>chuckC
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Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
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