Seized Upper Ball Joint on Rear Right
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Seized Upper Ball Joint on Rear Right
Folks, I am back once again asking for advice on how to break a seized part on my c5.
This time, I'm trying to remove my spindles - I've removed all of them except my rear right which is being extraordinarily stubborn. Here's a list of techniques I have tried over the last 2 days
- Tuning Fork Separator from Orielly's - This ripped the ball joint boot
- Clamp Style Separator from Autozone - The side with one arm keeps slipping so it falls off rather than pushing up
- Jacking up the lower control arms + tuning fork/clamp style + hammering the upper control arm
- Leaving in PB blaster overnight (for 2 nights)
- Hammering the **** out of everything
As I said the ball joint boot has already been ripped so at this point I'm down to try anything possible. I'd like to get this out tonight so I can order the ball joints before thanksgiving break ends and I have to go back to Austin! If needed I can take pictures
Any advice would be appreciated fellas
Oh and I'd rather not use a blow torch to heat anything up as there is a ridiculous amount of PB blaster everywhere that is just itching to ignite
This time, I'm trying to remove my spindles - I've removed all of them except my rear right which is being extraordinarily stubborn. Here's a list of techniques I have tried over the last 2 days
- Tuning Fork Separator from Orielly's - This ripped the ball joint boot
- Clamp Style Separator from Autozone - The side with one arm keeps slipping so it falls off rather than pushing up
- Jacking up the lower control arms + tuning fork/clamp style + hammering the upper control arm
- Leaving in PB blaster overnight (for 2 nights)
- Hammering the **** out of everything
As I said the ball joint boot has already been ripped so at this point I'm down to try anything possible. I'd like to get this out tonight so I can order the ball joints before thanksgiving break ends and I have to go back to Austin! If needed I can take pictures
Any advice would be appreciated fellas
Oh and I'd rather not use a blow torch to heat anything up as there is a ridiculous amount of PB blaster everywhere that is just itching to ignite
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Ok about 40 hours in I let my dad let loose and he got it open 
According to him he kinda just raised the jack, hammered, lowered the jack, hammered, and did that back and forth until it finally gave. Now to drop another $400 in joints for all the boots I ripped 
According to him he kinda just raised the jack, hammered, lowered the jack, hammered, and did that back and forth until it finally gave. Now to drop another $400 in joints for all the boots I ripped
