HELP! Drop arm wont budge after cutting

ONE LIFE LIVE IT. D90 · May 14, 2014

Hi

Got the grinder out tonight to try and cut a slot in the drop arm to try and remove it. As per some of the tutorials on the net.

The bloody thing still wont budge though, hit it a fair few times but wary of causing problems or wear in the steering box. Didnt use a hammer too heavy though.

I have no access to any pullers of any kind, nor can i drive it now.

Any suggestions guys, im stuck

iguana · May 14, 2014

Just keep grinding at all the areas you can access, don't hit it at all.

trax · May 14, 2014

cut all the way through?

ONE LIFE LIVE IT. D90 · May 14, 2014

Yeah its cut all the way through, maybe too far a little. I'll try grinding it at another angle

LRD90tdi · May 14, 2014

It is a pig of a job but you just have to make another slice and then I found you can loosen it enough with some persuasion from a cold chisel and a hammer...

Tom

Caberfeidh · May 14, 2014

As I said on another thread failing heat, a drift and a sledge hammer if you can loosen the bolt you can try going for a drive along a bumpy lane. That should dislodge the drop arm off the tapered splines. This was advice I received from someone in the know many years ago.

Can you loosen the bolt with some big nasty stillsons first?

Brown · May 14, 2014

Yes, just keep grinding it away. it can't hold on for ever.

trax · May 15, 2014

Caberfeidh said:
As I said on another thread failing heat, a drift and a sledge hammer if you can loosen the bolt you can try going for a drive along a bumpy lane. That should dislodge the drop arm off the tapered splines. This was advice I received from someone in the know many years ago.

Can you loosen the bolt with some big nasty stillsons first?

i tried that, it didn't budge. had it soaked in plusgas for a week, 8 ton puller, hammers and allsorts.

a grinder worked

but i had to go all the way through then it went clang and dropped off.

tbh, this was a 3 bolt box on a 26 year old vehicle..

Station House · May 15, 2014

Can be hard to be sure you've cut all the way through

Minetook several cuts making the 'slice' wider and wider before it eventually did the decent thing and fell off!

Perserverance and brute force on this one I'm afraid

the_wolf · May 15, 2014

Would cutting the actual drop arm off so you can get a nut splitter in there not help? if you've already cut a slot and you stick a nut splitter on it surely it can't stay on then

200tdi ayre · May 15, 2014

You need a clarkson toolbox treatment

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