2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Help with the track bar removal!

[Texis]

Picked up a new track bar today, can't get the tapered end out of frame fitting to remove the old one! I have beat the pee-pee out of that thing with a tie rod fork and a 3 pound mall, notta.



Any tricks or hints on getting the tapper end out?



Thanks in advance,

 

[VolsFan]

I used a digging iron to break mine loose, done it on handful of other trucks, works good. just wedge it between the bar and the frame and push down with a lot of force, it will break loose

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

I whack on the side of the knuckle in a direction it is supported and won't bend.

 

[HHhuntitall]

I've got a mini-sasquatch working for me, and I get him to stand on a 7' rockbar, prying it away from the frame, close to the joint, then I "tap" on it with a 2-4lb persuasion device..... It'll pull the ball out of it on occasion, but if it does, the welder comes out, and when I get done welding a piece of angle iron to it, it's good and hot and as it starts to cool, it falls right out.....

 

[Texis]

It's out, and the new one in. The digging / rock bar wouldn't do it. It was bending, maybe the one I had wasn't big enough?? It is about 5ft long. .

The tie rod end removal fork tool + 4ft of 1" pipe extension, which allowed me to swing the maul outside the truck. . BINGO.

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[HHhuntitall]

Meh, probably cheap steel... the bar I've got is older than us both combined, and come of a ship in the Pacific somewhere... . Pop cut it in half, and I go the duty of heating and beating the handle end round and shaping the chisel point..... Pop was a Merchant Marine for a long time, and always brought home some neat stuff... ... good steel is hard to come by nowadays... .

Glad you got it, though. Nothing like a little leverage... .