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Originally Posted by Rosssavage
Reviving an old (but very useful!) thread.
Currently have both my spindles out lying on the garage floor (01 3.0 140kmiles).
There is NO WAY those ball joints are coming out while the spindle is still on the car!!
Got one ball joint out so far - I needed two days worth of presoak in penetrating oil, heat, and BFH. Beat the absolute hell out of it with the BFH and a punch and it finally went, got the other one to do tomorrow.
I also managed to snap both inner etorx boots on both sides (the drilled through bolt, thankfully not the blind hole one). The corrosion holding the bolts in was stronger than the bolts themselves! Got those to drill out now too.
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Did you manage to do it Ross?
Am struggling with both sides on mine. Tried the hammer and chisel approach and even managed to bend the bolt hole lug/ears on one so thought it waws going to go but didnt. Going to spray well this evenng and have another go at the weekend. Thinking of making a puller as described earlier in the thread using some threaded rod and steel plate, was a bit concerned about stripping the threads but then thought about cutting the ears off and winding a washer and nut up the thread so the force isnt applied to the thread but rather the knuckle. Sadly, I am doing it on axke stands too so a slide hammer isnt going to work as dont have enough height.