I have a spare D44 front that I got specifically for the stock steering arm... The J shaped piece with the three cone washers. Shot it with WD 40, banged on it with a hammer. Pushed it, pulled it. Soaked it. Bought a can of penetrating oil. Soaked it. Let it sit. Pried it. Banged it. Hit it over and over. Soaked it... then I heated it. Burned myself. Banged on it. Pulled. Used magic language. It won't budge.
You'r best bet is to keep hittin it. You ain't gonna hurt it so just have at it. I used a big hammer and a nice pointy chisel and some heat to get them off. good luck
just beat on the arm with a big hammer. I have had friends bring knuckles to my shop saying they have been trying for hours. I hit them maybe 2 times and the cones back right off.
I couldn't get mine to budge, untill I put each one of the washer heads in the vice and smashed them together a bit. Then it started to move with hammer.
in a pinch, i have welded the nut to the stud (you don't have to run it all the way back down, just enough to make good weld...) get out the biggest impact, and squirt some WD-40 or PB-blaster in the air fitting of the impact (it is like nitrous, or heroin for impacts) and rattle them bastards out of the knuckle... you WERE going to replace the studs, anyway, right? (or at least the ones on the knuckle you are going back on to are good, right?)
in a pinch, i have welded the nut to the stud (you don't have to run it all the way back down, just enough to make good weld...)
get out the biggest impact,
and rattle them bastards out of the knuckle...
If you have a welder and don't mind throwing away the studs, this is the most reliable way to do it that I've found. Particularly if you're after the steering arm itself--it's possible that you'll end up beating it badly enough to damage it, if you just try to hammer it off.
Maybe that is the way to go. I have a welder, and I don't need these studs... but I would like to reuse the cone washers... I just have to remember which way the studs are threaded-- which direction to turn them...
Or the multi-clamp puller thing-- I think my friend Bob has one.
So Christmas day, I go down with an 8# sledge... and when I look down one of the cone washers is sticking up... and it was loose!. I unthreaded it by hand. I taped on the edge until the others came loose... pretty easily.
I cleaned the arm off with a grinder and wire brush... cleaned the mounting surface on the other axle and torqued it down. The mounting surface on the new axle was painted and I thought about grinding all the paint off... Does anyone know if this paint is going to be a problem?
what you can do is find someone with a press and find a socket that sits on the rib of the con then it should just pop right out
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