[cybereclipse]

i cannot figure out this for the life of me...
so i have the truck jacked up and the upper control arm jacked up slightly and I still cannot separate the uca from the spindle....

am i doing something wrong???

 

[Wilco3]

you gotta lift it up and then lower it using the jack all the while smashing it with a big a$$ hammer

 

[cybereclipse]

tried that...little ****** will not come off...
i am beyond frustrated right now

 

[Johnnyman88]

do what you where doing, but adjust the level of the spindle and hit.. It should come off with a wack or 2 or 3 or 4 hahaha.. just keep trying different levels.

 

[mike]

your truck is telling not to put them on...

 

[cybereclipse]

your truck is telling not to put them on...

i'm starting to think so, 2 hours and counting...still cannot this this piece of **** off....
i am so ridiculously pissed off right now im about to take this hammer to the entire bodywork of the truck

 

[Zedbra]

a little heat does wonders. course, the ball joint will be toast.

 

[Wilco3]

http://www.clubfrontier.org/forums/f19/leveling-kit-install-problems-57515/

 

[cybereclipse]

well about 5 hours later...still nothing

im giving up for the day and leaving the truck jacked up off the ground...
sick and tired of this bullshit

 

[SilverBullet]

I just did my leveling kit install today also. Are you smasking it from the front towards the back?

 

[scurvydog]

Just keep beating on it from different angles right on the cup on the spindle. I did mine yesterday and both sides took 10 or 15 minutes worth of hard hammering. I also ended up jacking up the LCA so high that it came completely off the stands so that the stud was as vertical as possible. That seemed to help quite a bit because they both came loose quickly after I did that. Might not hurt to spray a little PB Blaster on there too if you haven't already.

 

[nizmut]

let the truck down, stuff a piece of wood between the uca and coil bucket, jack it back up. The block will tension the ball joint. Get a BFH and hit the spindle beside the bolt,








no harder than that.

Oh yeah leave the nut on like you have it so snit doesn't go flying.