Steering Upgrades when going to 37s?

[mrtm1970]

@Roky

What grease brand/part do you recommend for grease gun?

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[Roky]

@Roky

What grease brand/part do you recommend for grease gun?

Check with SS and see if they have a recommendation, but I use this for everything except my Rock Krawler stuff….

 

[zouch]

i’ve been using the RCV stuff just because it’s what i have in the gun most of the time because i use it at least every tire rotation.

RCV high moly grease

 

[mrtm1970]

@Roky

NEED HELP!!! Fing Stock Drag link won’t come off at Pitman arm!!! Using Fork and used heat and penetrating fluid:

Even have other end up high:

 

[Roky]

@Roky

NEED HELP!!! Fing Stock Drag link won’t come off at Pitman arm!!! Using Fork and used heat and penetrating fluid:

Even have other end up high:

Just keep after it, take the fork out and go in from several different directions, sometimes if you just go at it from the same place you can make it tighter because it kinda wedges it

 

[mrtm1970]

Just keep after it, take the fork out and go in from several different directions, sometimes if you just go at it from the same place you can make it tighter because it kinda wedges it

@Roky
not working

 

[mrtm1970]

Continuing with the Dynatrac Ball Joints in the meantime:

 

[Roky]

Continuing with the Dynatrac Ball Joints in the meantime:

You may have enlist an extra pair of hands, one working the fork, and one smacking the side of pitman, drowwn it PB let it sit a bit, sometimes it takes some doing…..

 

[mrtm1970]

You may have enlist an extra pair of hands, one working the fork, and one smacking the side of pitman, drowwn it PB let it sit a bit, sometimes it takes some doing…..

Drenching it in PB…unfortunately no other hand as my 14 yr old son is Autistic

 

[mrtm1970]

Just ordered a pitman arm puller that will come tomorrow morning by 8am…will see if I can make something work or at least get it done today

 

[mrtm1970]

Just keeps getting better

 

[roaniecowpony]

Pulling the pitman arm off the steering box is a good move. Beating on the pitman arm while it's on the steering box transmits each hit into the bearings and gears of the steering box.

Once it's off the box, putting the outside diameter on an anvil and striking the opposite side with a big steel hammer, will elastically deform the tapered hole slightly and break the taper loose from the stud.

 

[mrtm1970]

Pulling the pitman arm off the steering box is a good move. Beating on the pitman arm while it's on the steering box transmits each hit into the bearings and gears of the steering box.

Once it's off the box, putting the outside diameter on an anvil and striking the opposite side with a big steel hammer, will elastically deform the tapered hole slightly and break the taper loose from the stud.

Unfortunately I do not have a socket that big

 

[mrtm1970]

Basically, if it could go all wrong…it has been that way almost every step …. Very frustrating as I was looking forward to doing all this work myself and ALL the videos make it look SO EASY!!! NOT!!! LOL

 

[mrtm1970]

@Roky

Any trick to get these off?

Banging the shit out of them and used A LOT of PB

I new weighted mallets coming in the morning as well

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