front lower ball joint removal
Discussion
Adrian
There's lots of tips on YouTube on how to remove stubborn nuts and as Steve says you could try and slit down the side with angle grinder and use a cold chisel to split the nut, however it looks awkward to get the grinder to the nut without damaging the hub carrier.
The first thing I would do is clean up that nut because I can't see whether the spanner you are using is rounding the nut. You say 22mm or 23mm fits, well firstly I would use only the 22mm, with less chance of nut rounding.
What tool are you using, if it's and open-ended spanner then that is most likely to round off nut. I would use a 22mm socket with a long breaker bar and possible put a large piece of scaffolding tube on the bar to get maximum leverage.
You could use heat, a blow lamp or similar to heat up nut and break the seal between nut and threaded end.
You could use an impact gun, air or electric if you can get one in there.
If the issue is the taper is broken and the ball is spinning then you could put a jack under the ball joint to make the taper seal again and then try breaker bar.
If that doesn't work its back to angle grinder, you could cut from top and cut nut and thread, without fear of damaging hub carrier.
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-remove-a-stub...
Hope this helps.
Pete
There's lots of tips on YouTube on how to remove stubborn nuts and as Steve says you could try and slit down the side with angle grinder and use a cold chisel to split the nut, however it looks awkward to get the grinder to the nut without damaging the hub carrier.
The first thing I would do is clean up that nut because I can't see whether the spanner you are using is rounding the nut. You say 22mm or 23mm fits, well firstly I would use only the 22mm, with less chance of nut rounding.
What tool are you using, if it's and open-ended spanner then that is most likely to round off nut. I would use a 22mm socket with a long breaker bar and possible put a large piece of scaffolding tube on the bar to get maximum leverage.
You could use heat, a blow lamp or similar to heat up nut and break the seal between nut and threaded end.
You could use an impact gun, air or electric if you can get one in there.
If the issue is the taper is broken and the ball is spinning then you could put a jack under the ball joint to make the taper seal again and then try breaker bar.
If that doesn't work its back to angle grinder, you could cut from top and cut nut and thread, without fear of damaging hub carrier.
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-remove-a-stub...
Hope this helps.
Pete
If you're worried about damaging other parts with a grinder, there's always the option of using a hacksaw to slice the nut, it'll take longer and raise a sweat, but that's what we used to do back when. A 'blade holder' is handy in restricted space rather than the full framed version.
One thing to remember with our cars is that a lot of the nuts and bolts are imperial!
So you’ve been trying to get a 22mm spanner on a nut that is 7/8 inch or 22.22mm.
Put the metric spanner’s down then go and buy yourself a set of imperial sockets and spanners.
You may even find it will release with the right size ring spanner or socket if there’s enough metal for it to bite on.
Worth a try.
So you’ve been trying to get a 22mm spanner on a nut that is 7/8 inch or 22.22mm.
Put the metric spanner’s down then go and buy yourself a set of imperial sockets and spanners.
You may even find it will release with the right size ring spanner or socket if there’s enough metal for it to bite on.
Worth a try.
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