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10-15-2012, 07:32 AM | #11 |
floridaracerx
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Re: over tightened castle nuts :(
air impact wrench... the speed will get it spun off before the ball joint has time to spin in steering arm seat.
ball joints are one of those things that need the air impact to make it easier on the service. once zipped back on with impact you can use a wrench to do the final alignment of the hole in shaft and the castle nut openings. (there was a recall on polaris atv ball ends back in the mid 2000's while i was a tech at a polaris dealer.. did so many ball joint removals and front end alignments we were pretty sick of seeing ball joints by the end of the month) |
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10-16-2012, 11:55 AM | #12 |
“I don’t feel tardy”
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Re: over tightened castle nuts :(
again thanks! I do not have a impact wrench available unfortunately.. so I have to come up with another way to back the castle nuts off.
I have some other things join on right now but will get the washers and hopefully figure out a way to remove the nuts. ps.Shon, these are after market parts.. Also there is no horizontal play while the cart is on the ground. thanks man!! |
10-16-2012, 01:05 PM | #13 | |
Gone Wild
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10-25-2012, 04:08 AM | #14 | |
Astronautilator
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Location: North Idaho
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Re: over tightened castle nuts :(
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The impact wrench is the best way but you said you don't have one. A prybar, of some sort will also help too. You said you are using after market parts, no biggie there. You also said the joint is tight and that is good. Chances are very likely you need that metal washer mentioned. I doubt you have stripped the threads but you might have ran the nut all the way down to the bottom of the threads on the joints shaft. If you have done that please take a look at the bottom couple of threads on those nuts when you get them off. Make sure the threads are still sharp and are not flattened. If they are you should get new nuts. Also while you are trying to remove the joint, besides clamping it with a vice-grip and using a prybar, you want to tilt the lower socket in any direction that gives you more resistance. Every little bit of resistance you can put on the ball thread going up threw the arm will give you more chances to get the nut off. Hope you get it. Let us know what happens. |
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10-25-2012, 02:26 PM | #15 | |
Gone Wild
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10-25-2012, 04:15 PM | #16 | |
Not Yet Wild
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10-26-2012, 12:12 PM | #17 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Reddick IL
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Re: over tightened castle nuts :(
The old hillbilly impact wrench was smack the end
of the wrench to jolt the nut loose. I recommend the box end on the nut to save your knuckles. |
10-26-2012, 01:56 PM | #18 |
Gone Mad
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Re: over tightened castle nuts :(
There's always the type impact driver seen in the first photo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_driver Cheap and quite useful. |
10-26-2012, 08:23 PM | #19 | |
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12-30-2012, 11:24 AM | #20 |
“I don’t feel tardy”
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Re: over tightened castle nuts :(
It has been a while! Hope everyone had a great xmas!! Thanks again for all the information!!!! My buddy down the street had a pry bar and he just taped it into place between balljoint and the (idler arm?) in front of the rubber boot and the bolt backed right off. We put on nice stainless steel washers. The rubber boots were history and I ordered some more. Until then I just greased them up inside and out to keep the elements off. So the treads were fine and everything is nice and tight. :) Now I am trying to figure out why my cart is reading 39.9/40.1 even 10hrs after the charge and riding around the hood for at least 1-2 hrs. Seems like a hight reading.. but I guess that will be another post. Happy new years everyone!!
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