They are pressed in though. Don’t think it would come offLeave the "shaft" in the crossmember.
Take the control arm off the of the shaft.
Get out your vise grips, channel lock pliers.
Put onto the shaft, in a non marring location.
Tighten down the self locking nut.
Reinstall the LCA, onto the shaft.
Easy peasy.
It's the same principal, but in reverse, if you were at a wrecking yard, pulling LCA's off some donor car.
When the LCA bushings are so shot to hell, you can't get the nut OFF, because the shaft is spinning around due to the shot bushing.
You pull the LCA back off the shaft, tighten down your vise grips, remove the nut from the front threads of the shaft.
Done that, many times pulling LCA's off cars at the Pick-N-Pull's.
Ok good tip. Maybe I’ll clean the threads up and try a regular nut. I tried with my impact but just was spinning in the LCA. Thanks a bunch!If you’re using a Nylock or other kind of locking nut you’ll probably need to spin the pivot nut on with an impact wrench until it pulls tension on the pin.
The threads on the end of the pin in your picture are pretty shiny, you might need to dress those up as that will cause you issues too. The more resistance you get from the threads the harder this will be.
You can also try grabbing the outside of the shoulder on the pin (the part up against the bushing in the picture) with a set of channel locks or vice grips. But you have to be careful not to bung up the bushings when/if you do that. Or any part of the shoulder that will touch the bushing, but the outside ring of that shoulder shouldn’t touch anything.
I use a battery powered impact to get mine started, and prefer using a regular nut with a lock washer. The Firm Feel pins I use call for a 100 ft/lb torque spec, so, I don’t worry about them backing off or about starting them with the impact.
I thought we were talking about "POLY" bushings here?They are pressed in though. Don’t think it would come off
Starting to think it’s not worth the price. Stock worked for 50 years, maybe I shoulda stuck with it. Oh well.Poly is like that.
They are pressed in though. Don’t think it would come off
I thought we were talking about "POLY" bushings here?
Then you are right, if you're using bushings that press into the LCA.
It won't work.
Starting to think it’s not worth the price. Stock worked for 50 years, maybe I shoulda stuck with it. Oh well.