Lower Ball Joint Removal

[Djaniero]

Hi lads,

I'm trying to remove my lower ball joints at the moment on my GT, but can't for the life of me remove the 19mm castle nut (soak in a load of wd40). The gap is too small to get the ring end of my rachet spanner over it, so I attacked it with the open end side, but it started to round off slightly. Bar attacking it with a grinder, or heating it up is there anything else I can do to remove it?

Thanks

 

[SKINY]

Can you get thin vice grips at it bud ?

 

[Calum122]

Are you doing it in situe? You can get ball join splitters.

I think I hammered my nut off or put it in a vice and pressed it out.

 

[dac69er]

May be a stupid question, but have you removed the split pin?

 

[Djaniero]

Can you get thin vice grips at it bud ?

Just about, but then can get any leverage on it. Such a tight space.

Are you doing it in situe? You can get ball join splitters.

I think I hammered my nut off or put it in a vice and pressed it out.

I'll try hammering the nut off, if not I'll attack it with my small grinder.

May be a stupid question, but have you removed the split pin?

Yeah split pin removed but nut is solid and won't move