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Originally Posted by Zoomad75
It's all in where you hit the arm. My 30 year old original steering arm came off in 20 minutes. soak the snot out of the studs up to a week before you start. Soak them every day. Then on lift day, remove the nuts, break out the BFH. Strike DOWN on the curved section where the numbers are cast in. doing so will shock the cones and start forcing them up. Once you can grab onto a cone with some pliers, turn them until the come off the stud. Repeat for the next two studs and the arm will pop off.
I'd at least try this technique before sending the whole knuckle out to a machine shop. It's much easier to do with the knuckle attached to the axle/truck.
Granted, done wrong, you better pack a lunch. I watched my nieghbor fight one on a 91 k5 for an entire weekend. Sounded like a blacksmith's shop from outside the garage with all that banging going on. (it was before I knew the trick or else I would have told them)
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Right on brother! A socket that's larger than the cone washer can be used to shock it out. The socket is held against the arm over one washer at a time. Then contact is made with the BFH!
A couple strikes per washer will usually do it. The guy who showed me this trick dropped my steering arm in less than 5 min.