Wishbone - how to crack the ball-joint.

[David Lawrence]

Originally Posted by EastPete

Thanks for this Mike - another useful method for getting the wishbones off, and probably lower risk than the jack/weight of the car method. I have been successful on a few occasions now using a good bearing puller to crack the joint, as mentioned by David Lawrence. However, it is good to have a possible back-up in case this does not always work.

Cheers

Pete

I like the appliance of science to a problem like this and Mike's method applies just enough logic that it should work and as said before looks easier than my method. My greatest fear was the threads stripping in the puller.

Jules method seemed like a dead cert by dropping the car off a jack on to the ball joint stud but just didnt work for me. The neighbours thought i had gone mad. But after about 20 drops i gave up and used the puller. Then the joint just kind of sits there looking at you saying "what was all that about then?"