i can't for the life of me get my tie rod ends un-stuck from the nut on the tie rod. i was able to get the pin-bolts out of the control arm after repeatedly drowning them with WD40. other than that ...

ISN'T THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO??!!

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can you post a pic?

for some reason i cant picture[&o]

 

Did someone say a blowtorch?














Heat that thing up, it helps, belive me.

 

Pull Back the Steering boot at the rack, by cuttin the Steel clip holding it
then remove the Inner T/rod from the rack
You can remove the whole assembly and work on the bench
If its seized you might have to use heat but watch out for the boot
or you might melt it
If so best just to get both inner and outter
then Alignment, most INPORTANT

 

i did my control arms today too! My problem was the pin bolt though. i got a small sledge hammer and banged it non stop till it came out. Now after i was done, i found out one of the control arm is worn.........

 

hey thanks to all for chimin' in.
was thinking about the blow torch but worried about the boot.
here's a pic

i even grabbed the nut with a box wrench and the tie rod with a PIPE wrench and couldn't get it to budge. i was flexin' the hell outa the box wrench.
i also had a killer time with the pins until i drenched them long enough and beat them out with my framing hammer.

this was supposed to be the easy part.

these were supposed to be the fun part.




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are you replacing worn out tie rod ends?

if not you dont need to remove those to install your suspenion

 

lol ... yeah, they're way shot, 97k miles worth. the bushing was actually peeling off the rod end.