[tim71]

I know this post is old but thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth of knowledge. I've spent a couple hours a day for the past 3 or 4 days trying to remove the raised steering arm off my K1500. I am lowering my truck back to stock height. I was trying to remove arm with axle under truck so this limits your options somewhat. I alternated between 1 and 1/16 socket over cone washers(hitting top of socket) and just plain beating on arm with a sledge hammer. Full size sledge with restricted short whacks. I can't say the socket method did any good, maybe it would if axle was not under truck and you could swing crazy hard. I think what broke mine free was a series of continuous hits from drag link hole in arm to about where the arm turns. I was real close to giving up when one of the hits of the pattern I was using went soft, the arm was free. All 3 cone washers went loose at same time. I used a punch and the cone washers backed out. A few revolutions with punch and then they screwed out by hand. During the process, I had been trying to turn the cone washers with a punch, but I could never get them to move. Maybe this effort helped the hammering process. I also soaked PB Blaster on to the studs each day. Not a fun task, just need a lot of patience.