have a 74 dana 44 and am trying to remove the driver steering arm:mad: have beat the fawker senseless w/ a bfh used cans of pb blaster so its well lubed heated up the studs to losen any and all grease hell i even welded on the nuts and took a big impact and tried to pull the studs out:mad: anyone have a solution.

I have no useful tech to add, but I was just looking at your sig line,

"100,000 sperm and your the one that one."

You are that one sperm, aren't you?

cmk

Are the cone washers loose at all? If they are stick a screwdriver in the slot and turn them around the stud like you're (not your) pulling a nut off.

LMAO @cmk!:laughing:

I went through the same thing with mine. Welding the nuts on has worked for me a couple times. Had one where they still wouldn't budge, even with 3/4" drive 2' socket wrench. Finally said screw it and fixed the problem with the sawzall. Didn't matter since I was only running reg. crossover.

I've seen this discussed at least 3 times this month. Do a search :flipoff2: There's been all kinds of good tips.

I just went throught the same thing. I used a 4# hammer and beat the living hell outa the sob. Yeah, that's right, it came off :skull:

Usually some gentle persuasion with the 5 lb mini-sledge will do it. Hit the side of the arm just outboard of the cone washers. If you can't get them loose let your girlfriend try. :flipoff2:

if you are tryin gto remove the actual arm I have found that the "hit the ends of each stud with an air hammer" method saves you alot of hammer bashing.
Found this out after a lot of hammer bashing, and trying to cut the fawkers off...it loosens the cone washers, and the arm comes off easy.
(This was on rusty northeastern shit)
If you are planning on reusing the studs...put the nuts on the ends to protect the threads as you do this stuff.
I wouldnt reuse em though.

As far as stud removal, I had a couple that were really in there.

I had soaked them with blaster form both sides for a while in anticipation.
Used two nuts jammed up, and a big breaker bar.
No go.
HEated the studs from the bottom ends, hit em with a hammer all around as much as I could as it cooled.
I seem to recall using a big electric impact on em too.

This did the trick.

MJ

There's a guy on this board quoting my method for removing those arms in his sig....but basically, heat the arm between the cones, and beat the side of the arm like you're smacking a newbie asking about 31's on a TJ, once the cones pop up, use a screw driver or chisel to turn them out. That works for all the nasty rusted on northern Michigan ones I've done. By the way, anyone want a couple dozen Chevy steering arms? For some reason I always save them, they're starting to pile up.

thanks for the input and yes i looked at the search i'll try the air hammer then sawzall:D

I had the same problem awhile back, but now I'm an old pro.

I use a sledge hammer and hammer the arm up. It WILL give a little. Then hammer it back down. This is usually enough to pop the cone washers free. Only takes a minute to do now.

As mentioned above, if you can't get it, then ask your wife/girl friend to do it for you. :flipoff2: