Knuckle arm wont separate from Ball Joint HELP

[DatsunZsRule]

Ok, I'm in the middle of this wonderful project :mad: and I am having a bastard of a time trying to get the knuckle arm separated from the lower ball joint. any help is much appreciated

[DatsunZsRule]

never mind I broke out my air hammer Popped the sucker right off

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just for future reference ball joint separators (also called pickle forks) work awsome for this and any auto parts store has them :-)

[VaGuS510]

A trick I found out (couldn't find my ball joint seperator): Use a pulley puller. The type that has the large center bolt with the "peace sign" shaped slots for bolts to go thru. Put bolts thru this and into the big bolt holes for the knuckles. It doesn't line up perfect but it worked great when i did it.

[DatsunZsRule]

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That is what I used was a picle fork set. Works awesome My Pickle fork set comes with 2 adapters. I can thread any of my forks to one adapter for normal hammering, or I can screw on the other adapter that has the end to go into an air Hammer which is what I had to do. Stupid me trying to be a big shot and do the hard way first All I can say is that Air Hammer I bought was spendy but worth every damn dime. All I had to do was hold the trigger for like 3 or 4 seconds and that knuckle arm was off

Reason I started this thread was because I got freaked out. thought I left my air hammer at work

Here is the set I have:

[DatsunZsRule]

Ok, another Question-

One of the bolts thats secures the ball joint assembly to Transverse link broke on me :mad: I was finally able to find a replacement however it's just a little longer (See picture by ball joint rubber boot)

Whats your guys thoughts? Looks like it will be fine to me as it doesn't hit anything.

[ChrisA]

Run it Jared!! Car looks great.

Chris A.

[DatsunZsRule]

Thats the reply I was hoping for Thanks again Chris.

[VaGuS510]

Too bad they didn't give you new bolts with your ball joints. I ordered a frontend kit from PST. It has urathane bushings (including swaybar center and endlinks), tie rod ends and ball joints. It comes with new hardware for the ball joints and the right tie rod (the left is reverse thread and appearently the jamnut is harder to get ahold of).

[DatsunZsRule]

Well I found a replacement after chasing around to 4 different places Apparently there are 3different types of metric and our Z's have to be the "Hard to find" ones.

I just got done with the project. Here is the finished pictures. Wish I had some before shots but I was too busy. The originals were so shot it was terrible.