Am looking for a steering box drop arm. Have got hold of a replacement steering box but it didn't have a drop arm on it, and I can't manage to get the drop arms off either of the other two boxes I have. So if anyone has one going spare, please could you let me know a price including postage to Oxford. Am also looking for one if the big locking washers that goes on under the nut holding the drop arm on and is bent over the nut and down the side of the arm. Does anyone know where I might be able to get one of these? Have looked on all the usual suspect websites and couldn't spot one. Thanks. Nick.
Go out and buy a puller mate. There not expensive and will get the arms off. Use one then sell the other to pay for it
Thanks icepub and zed. Had heard you need a hydraulic press to get these off and so that is the main reason I'm looking for one already off rather than trying to get myself a puller that probably won't work anyway!
Take to a garage and they'll get it off for you. Get both done and sell one? I just paid £20 for one.
Thank Zed. Just dropped the one not on my van off at my local garage on the way to work and they said they should be able to get it off - will find out if they have managed it at lunchtime! Nick...
And it's off... They said they struggled even with their hydraulic puller and had to really heat it, but in the end it came off with an almighty bang! Charged me £20 for doing it - but at least it's off!
Glad you got it sorted -but for anyone doing this it is all about the right tools -I have a 10T hydraulic puller and full press and these are not what I use for the job, the Sykes scissor ball joint splitter every time (the one for trucks though)
I've tried with a lorry ball joint splitter and got nowhere. Tightened up with an 18" bar until I thought the splitter would break and even left it overnight. @mattp can you show us a pic of your splitter please?
Zed was probably thinking about something like this http://www.dodgetravcos.com/web_images/pitman_arm_puller.jpg I'm surprised the ball joint plitter managed to be honest. Ive done a few drop arms on landrovers and they've all needed a hydraulic puller. Manahed to break so many pullers it's unreal. I made one out of 1 inch plate in the end but some scrote nicked it. It was basicaly a vice thread through plate cut in the same design as the pitman. couple of thin sheet gusset and the whole thing relied on a big pole (scaffold tube) due to the coarse thread.
Well, if the puller Zed used was like the one above that's not commercial IMHO, the one I have has not failed me yet, been using decent ones like that for years. The right tools for the job
