pain in the ball joint

sunday morning noticed the steering drop arm ball joint rubber boot had split ,
i had already had a spare ball joint assembly but looking at it there wasnt any play so just wanted to replace the rubber and grease it up knowing its a mot failure ,monday morning came so tools out ,got under the landy took steering damper off and started undoing the bolts ,got my splitter out and started to hit it the dam thing wouldnt move ,must of been there 3 hours scratching my head ,

It must of been on that long it was solid ..had to use the van so put everything back together
Next day came,,, tools out again ,,no luck again ,,afternoon came and the BLOW TOURCH came out ,,got the dam thing glowing red hit it with the splitter and it popped off
advice too people use copper grease plz !

if you hit the end of arm as close to joint as possible a few good hits will break the taper ,much less than is needed to force the taper hold

did that james
did not move ! ,,,bought the landy 90 about a year ago ,so dont know how long they were on but ended all good ,,,next job polys on panhard
any advice doing panhard would be appreciated
cheers

gillyuk1 said:

did that james
did not move ! ,,,bought the landy 90 about a year ago ,so dont know how long they were on but ended all good ,,,next job polys on panhard
any advice doing panhard would be appreciated
cheers

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you cant have hit it properly i never seen it fail
make sure car is level when you remove panhard rod

you cant have hit it properly i never seen it fail

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Agree

Had to use a splitter on a training course last year as a hammer was not allowed!! First time in years Ive even seen a splitter.