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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | whats a good cost effective pitman arm removal tool that actually does the job ------------------------------------------------later |
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Good question!
Years ago I rented a specialized HD Snap on puller ——— ruined it!!
Just went and got another complete steering gear. Pulled that pitman arm no problem.
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| i cut mine... i was swapping a dodge on a chrysler anyways |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | To remove the pitman arm with the steering gear in the car is a drama since there's no good space for a heavy duty puller.
For this reason, I will build a puller simular to the one shown in the fsm.
With the steering gear out of the car, it's important to have a heavy duty two arm puller with a crosswise reinforcement arm that holds the legs together.
I use a big wise for this instead.
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | Might have to heat the outside of the arm, then tap with hammer while pulling with a slide hammer/hook assembly.
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | As for tapping/hitting with a hammer - a photo of the broken ball-guide from the steering gear I recently renovated. Someone has beaten on both the ingoing and the outgoing shaft..……
Slidehammer wont work - the pitman arms are really tight and after years of rust creeping into the splines.
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | bought one two piece that was too small . tried a two legged puller , but went sideways while tightening . the next step will be buying a bigger two piece puller or a truck sized
puller like wiz posted . as to heating/bigger hammer theory , i tried that with the two legged puller as tight as i could get it without twisting the puller too far sideways . the
trick is here i think is to find a puller i can get super tight without slipping off , a little more heat without damage , and a bigger hammer . as of right now i've had it soaking
for two days with kroil adding just a little as it seeks to spread ,,,,, thanks guys and i'm still open to puller suggestions . i've never had one this tight --------------------------------later |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | so i bought two more tools . one like wiz posted but smaller than ford truck and one u shaped bigger than the first one i bought . now to wait for em to get here ----------------------------------------------later |
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| i tried heat... hitting and pulling and all that... was impossible to budge... |
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Location: Ontario, Canada | 60 dart - 2020-01-20 5:34 PM
so i bought two more tools . one like wiz posted but smaller than ford truck and one u shaped bigger than the first one i bought . now to wait for em to get here ----------------------------------------------later
I wish you luck.
I successfully pulled probably more than a dozen of them with just basic pullers but I pulled all of these in my shop with the steering gear out of the car. All/most of these off junkyard cars where they had been down in the dirt but the one I posted about earlier, I scrapped the entire assembly! But, that was in the days of "plenty"! It was off a Chrysler so the pitman arm is different from a Dodge and I didn't need another Chrysler arm!
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | it's goin to come off ,,,,, one way or another --------------------------------------------------later |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | received this one of which just fits with no extra space . might be the best one out of the bunch . yrs. ago the last one i took off was with
wood wedges . a lot of em ------------------------------------------later
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Location: Muskego, WI | You ever get that pitman arm off that steering gear Chuck? |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | yes sir with the puller from epay ---------------------------------------------------later |
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | Best price: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fspt=1&_from=R40&_nkw=OTC+8149+Pitm... |
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| hah stand behind a shield when using one of those.., get well protected... the pressure is insane, if that thing shattered it would be like a hand grenade going off.
Even the chinese stuff is correctly heat treated though it looks.
I just cut my old one off since i wasnt going to use it, it slid right off |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | hah stand behind a shield when using one of those .
used the 8149 and came right off with hardly any effort , some times the chinese tools work great with some luck --------------------------------------------later |
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