I'm having some trouble removing my old rusty steering arm for my new shiny raised one. I've beat the heck out of the thing and it just won't come off. Could it be the conical washers have rusted in permananlty? Apparently so, because I've sprayed it with PB blaster and wrestled with it everyday after work now for the past 5 days. Even used a torch to heat it up and try to get it to loosen up...but I'm pretty sure it's not coming off...ever. So who has gone through what I'm going through now? Did you ever get the blasted thing off? I really don't want to back the studs out for fear of snapping one off. So I was told to put the nuts back on a little bit and drive it around the yard and maybe that would loosen it up, but I don't think thats going to work.
Suggestions, Ideas, or experience would be greatly appreciated.

Use an air hammer and a blunt punch or a hammer head punch on the side of the arm.

The vibration from the hammer gun and repeated PB blaster will work the washers from the arm and up the studs.

This works better with an air hammer with some ass, but do the best with what you have.

Heating the washers then immediate cooling with PB sometimes works too.

How big is your hammer? I beat on mine for a couple of days with everything I had. It finally came loose with a friends sledge. I was kinda scared about how hard I was blasting the thing. The 2 outside washers came up and with a few up swings the middle one came loose, jammed a driver in the gap and screwed them off. Good luck!

lotsa spray lube...

take a large brass drift and hit the top of the studs...

and the cone washers usually loosen off until you can get it off...

sometimes it takes heat depending on how longs its been on there

good luck:D

try taking a flat head and hammering it into the gaps of the collars, that a BFH is what got mine off, took a while tho.wylie

This is what you gotta do. Turn your wheels all the way to the right for better access to the pitman arm, then use your bfh and beat the top and bottom of the side with one hole repeatedly and you'll notice the washers will start to rise, use some pliers to remove the washers and it will come right off. For two full days I beat on the sides, sprayed PB, and used a torch with no success. Finally I tried this and it took like 5 min. Good Luck

my brother beat his with a sledge and it was really rusty, I put some liquid wrench and hit it with my air hammer and it came lose in 5 seconds.

Here's another option. Stop beating on it, leave it on there. And go cross-over. You will not regret it.

some other have taken a large socket and dropped it arounug the stud and over the washer, not ON the washer be sure its big enough that the washer will fit inside it. hammer on the socket and the washer will raise up in to the socket.

i beat and beat and beat on mine with a big hammer and never got it to come off, everyone told me to hit it on the top of the arm were the numbers are. well i got tired of swinging my hammer so i drilled the old cones out since i had new ones anyway...

Here's another option. Stop beating on it, leave it on there. And go cross-over. You will not regret it.

Ditto. I got tired of mutilating the studs and arm and broke two steel sledge hammers and finally cut the whole god damn thing off with a cutting torch and ground the top flat. I was going crossover anyways, but I didnt want the stock arm sitting on there becuase I care about looks, I am a shallow bastard :flipoff2: Now I want to go high steer and the studs that I cut off wont drill out of the knuckle. Just a thought, crossover is worth every penny but if you wheel hard, then dont cut it off so you can mount the other high steer arm to it later, if you do normal wheeling, and dont bend tie rods once a week like some guy that I know :grinpimp: , then cut that fawker off and go crossover, you wont ever look back from that push pull shit gm steering.