Hey guys,
This seems to be one of those really stuck cone-shaped parts. Say if I'm
wrong before Ian does what I'm going to suggest!!
Make sure your retaining nut is loose on its threads or cut off as
previously discussed in several emails. Get rid of your 16-oz hammer for
this job -- it's for small to medium sized nails, small chisels on small to
medium sized nuts -- cars under 2000# gross vehicle weight. You could get
lucky, but a 2- or 3-pounder will still be small enough to work with under
there and yet big enough to get you some mass onto the arm. My tactic always
has been to hit the arm on the outside of the ring that holds the cone of
the tie-rod end and straight at the shaft of the arm so that there is the
greatest resistance to my hammer. If I rap the top of the nut or the shaft
of the tie-rod end, I'm going to do two bad things: (1) I'm going to suage
the threads of the shaft so that I can't get the nut off, and/or (2) I'm
going to have nothing behind my hammer strike to buck it back -- hit from
that angle, the unit will just bounce, and there won't be enough force to
separate the cone-shaped tie-rod end from the cone-shaped hole on the end of
the arm. When I hit it from the side, all the force goes into the cone area,
and it pops out happily. I know it seems like the fork and a 16-oz hammer
ought to do it, but often not for me. I get scared hitting the side of the
arm end, but it usually works with one or two raps. I did put a little heat
to one once, but I have only a small torch, so I don't know if that made any
difference or not. (Guys? say more about heat at this location. How much?
What kind of torch? What does it do to the arm?)
Gene
(Who is really tired of rain in the northeastern US -- I think we are going
on six weeks of it!)
- Original Message -----
From: "imothers_2000" <imothers@cranberrycommons.ca>
To: <peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: [Peugeot-L] Re: Separating a Tie-rod end - how hard should this be?
> Hi All,
> Thanks for the suggestions, but I see from the responses I didn't
> word my problem very well (too late at night I guess).
>
> The problem is the tie rod end won't come out of the arm. I have a
> grinder I can use to demolish the nut. There's a good size gap under
> the nut, it isn't in the way.
>
> I have been using a ball joint separator (one of the wedge-shaped
> things with two tines) both banging on the end (using the pressure of
> driving in the wedge between the arm and tie-rod to separate them)
> and using the separator as a lever, but neither has worked. I'm
> using a 16oz (carpenter's) hammer, perhaps this isn't heavy enough?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Ian
>
> --- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, Ian and Anne <imothers@c...> wrote:
> > Looking for some words of advice on this.
> > It's a week before the NW Peugeot meet, and I figure I really ought
> to
> > replace the Right-hand side Tie rod end as it is quite loose.
> Problem
> > is, it seems fused in place. One weird thing, there was two nuts
> > holding it on; the top one came off easily, the bottom one is
> stripped
> > and turns (it is quite loose) but won't come right off. I have been
> > whacking away at it with a ball-joint separator & soaking it in WD
> 40,
> > with zero results. There is enough clearance under the nut for the
> > tie-rod end to come free for the arm. The car has 115,000km (72,000
> > miles) so maybe this is the original one? I haven't got a welding
> > torch, but perhaps could heat things up with a propane torch, is
> that a
> > good idea? Or, perhaps this is beyond hand tools and needs to go
> to a
> > shop. Any other ideas?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ian Mothersill
> > Vancouver, BC, Canada
> > 84 505GL Sedan 5speed
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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