I’m getting to the “all out of ideas” point.

I can not for the life of me get the damn steering knuckle off. Doing the ball joints.

Everything is stripped off and the nuts are off.
I've tried everything I can find. Pickle fork behind the top ball (can’t get any traction on the bottom),
pullers where I can get them (again top can grab, but have to use a short centre bolt with the puller, so not getting full pull - bottom won’t hold), I’ve hit everything I can hit with my pair of 4 pound sledges. The bolts (nut on loosely), the knuckle everywhere I can get a good shot at. All around where the ***** are stuck. I’ve hit up, I’ve hit down…
Got the air chisel out and banged at it whenever I could get a line on it.
I’ve heated everything I feel I can sanely heat (mpz).
And it’s more punk-buster than metal now.

The only thing I don’t have is an air pickle fork, but can’t really see where I could get one in anyway.

And, yes, I’ve tried shouting at it.

What do I do next? Really hoping someone on here has the idea I haven’t come up with yet.

 

New thought... Put the jack under the lower bolt, pick up some portion of the weight of the truck and try more banging the crap out of things?
Grasping at straws here.

 

I smash knuckles off with a 5 llb mini sledge. Unless you're 200 lbs + and wailing on it with two hands you're not going to budge it. Also, hit the knuckle where the joint taper goes through it, 3 or 4 on the top and 3 or 4 on the bottom threaded part should do it. You're replacing the ball joints anyway so bash the threaded part up on the bottom one. The knuckles are stupid strong, you wont hurt them.

 

That’s the most enjoyable advice I’ve had in a long time. Thank you.
Maybe I’ll get the big sledge out…

 

your not hitting the P-fork hard enough?
..and use correct large ball joint press tool for the *****....

 

I always do it as shown below, we for the last 50 years or so

 

Did it!
Thank you all!
just needed the courage to really hit on rovertech’s top spot… and to bring out the 25lbs sledge.
Never expected that that could be an automotive tool.
Live and learn.

 

25lb hammer: classic Rover 'persuader' tool...

 

Just thought I’d ask, am I doing this right?
First try failed and I can see it rounded the shoulder of the underside of the old ball joint.
The instructions on the ball joint tool show it with one of the plates between the raw cast C and the ball joint. Completely doesn’t fit in this situation.

And as always, happy to hear any hard won wisdom from the group.



You can see the rounding in the second image! Not happy about it.

 

In the photo's are you trying to take it out, if so you need to put a distance piece in, as the bottom has nearly no travel/push left,

watch this video