I believe so, Snow...
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20 years ago
I believe so, Snow...
I sometimes use a Dremil tool with a fiberglass reinforced cut off blade or a small grinder and cut the nut.
I am in bad need for a new one too and was checking mine out, mine looks the same, I see it spinning easily.
I am thinking I am going to have to cut off the rubber boot on mine and try to cut it off on the bottom of the frame, then just punch the left over bolt and nut up and out.
If I have room, and it looks like it maybe I might try my sawsall with a good metal blade.
I also have a thin 6" cut wheel for my drill, one of those Canadian Tire 'miracle type' blades. It works pretty fast on them if I have room. I had to cut the nuts on two ball joints and only used about 1" off the wheel.
I have had success on a couple by cutting the boot away and using a large set of needle nosed vise grips and jamming them in the top of the ball between it and the frame to hold it solid. Sometimes that works, sometimes not. Have had to cut way too many....
The vise grips worked on the last one a couple weeks ago for a friend of mine when he did his here. I always try them first...
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT'sSnow wrote:
How did you get the nut off?
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT'sEric wrote:
I had a really long breaker bar and an even longer and even bigger pipe slid over the end of it. Even then I had to put my weight into it to get it to move...
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