I have a chunk of brass about six inches long and 2.5 inches in
diameter. I, kind of, sandwich the body of the tie rod end (underneath
the arm) using the chunk of brass as one slice of bread and a five lb.
short handled sledge as the other piece of bread. A few good whacks
(lateral whacks) with the brass absorbing the shock and the sledge
creating the shock usually frees most tie rod ends that I have
encountered. Carpenter's hammer and even a good size ball peen hammer
is probably not enough for the job you are doing.
Ken
On May 30, 2005, at 6:05 PM, imothers_2000 wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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