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YOUR RESEARCHBall Joint Castellated Nut
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Use heat and like you, first a punch
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I also then used heat and like you, first a punch and then a cold chisel.
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Same as what you'd use to adjust the preload on suspension springs
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Suggestion
Cut down (grinder) a cheap air tool socket of the same diameter and use a breaker bar.
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You can use a jack to keep the tool in place whilst you twist (if it's still attached to the car).
I believe the trick with the modified socket type is to also place hose clamp around the pins to stop it slipping sideway.....along with doing it on the car using a jack to ensure full contact.
I believe the trick with the modified socket type is to also place hose clamp around the pins to stop it slipping sideway.....along with doing it on the car using a jack to ensure full contact.
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C spanner with a long extension bar is my guess. Same as what you'd use to adjust the preload on suspension springs
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Cut down (grinder) a cheap air tool socket of the same diameter and use a breaker bar. You can use a jack to keep the tool in place whilst you twist (if it's still attached to the car). Which in your case it's not! Anyway where there's a will and a can of spinach , there's a way.
yeah.. kinda wishing it was still on the car now..
I do have one of those proper nuts, but I got the impression they were for installation only.. might have to find a "real" shop willing to fix my mess!
Edd China "Never give up!"
Only once in the past can't remember it's been so long that I have given up and taken something to someone (who also cursed++)>
More than once an experienced mechanic has told me "nah that's young man's work"
Sleep on it. Controlled frustration short of anger always works!
I used WD40 and waited for it to penetrate. I also then used heat and like you, first a punch and then a cold chisel. Got there in the end!
I believe the second one went easier as I left the WD40 to penetrate longer - Maybe just lucky?
The torque spec. for the slotted nut on the ball joint is 250 Nm = 184 ft-lb
About 3 large bashes with the screwdriver and sledgehammer sounds about right
Oldskl60,
Do you know of a good cheap source for those sockets? I've been thinking I'd have to make one like below but would prefer something ready to go.
I believe the trick with the modified socket type is to also place hose clamp around the pins to stop it slipping sideway.....along with doing it on the car using a jack to ensure full contact.
That's seems a great idea. I got mine off JimmyT on the earlyS. Not cheap but the quality is brilliant.
https://www.early911sregistry.org/forums/showthread.php?122022-FS-911-Front-Ball-Joint-Nut-Socket
This is next on my agenda for the '73.5 Going to give it a while with the penetrating fluids first. The brake calipers were a prick but we got there. Summoning all my memories from the 80s of how to get shit undone without destroying it in the process.
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