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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar
The shiny autozone tool does not fit MB tie rods (at least not on my car) might work for jap and american cars so going to rent it anyway just to try - For the dark one I have one from NAPA whose tensioning bolt bent when I tried to remove a tie rod on my W124 then I went medieval blacksmith on the tie rod and it popped out after 2 whacks with a 3lb steel hammer.
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I beat my Ball Joints loose from the Lower Control Arm with a Hammer to the detriment of the Nut. I made sure I had new Nut before I did the Beating a local Industrial Hardware Store had the Nut.
Since then I have 2 bought 2 Tools that work to Separate the Ball Joints and I hope I won't have to go back to beating on them.
Perhaps due to Oil leaking on them over the Years and them not getting rusty the Tie Rods were easily popped off with the Harbor Freight Tool.