Thread: OK to use hammer to get tie rod end out of Idler Arm?
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Old 07-03-2007, 07:49 AM
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I just did this exercise last night.

Smacking got one out. The others wouldn't budge. I used a 12oz ball been and a 1 lb dead blow hitting just like the above thread states.

Bought a $13 tierod/ball joint puller at Autozone, and it popped the tierods out so easily. Fellow at the counter said hed rent the tool to me for $0...I preferred to buy it for inevitable 'next time', but there is a zero cost solution.

A couple of the ends popped out with a LOT of force. I cant imagine how much smacking it would have taken to free them.

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