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How do I get the link out?

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Erik_71B

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I have been working to drop the front suspension on my 71B and have been having a bear of a time disconnecting the link that attach to the sway bar.
I finally got the nut off but I cannot get the link out. According to the Moss catalog, and my manuals, there is only a nut and washer. Is this pressed in? I just can't seem to move it.
The problem is the same on both sides.
Any suggestions?
 
If you're talking about removing the link from the a-arm, that's ust a hammer job....if you're talking about removing the link from the bar itself, that's a different thing altogether....the rubber bushing in the sway bar has frozen to the bolt that holds the link to it...in that instance, the only way I've done it is burning the bushing out, cleaning the bolt real good, & installing a new bushing.
 
Well I tried to torch the bushing, but I did not go long enough to melt it out, only to heat it, I can try burn it.
With the link it just seems that I cannot get enough of a hard hit to get the link away from the a-arm.
Tomorrow I will try again.
Thanks
 
I usually wait until the a-arm is off the spring perch, put the sway bar in a vice & hit the a-arm knocking it across the garage!
 
I'm saving this thread. Just the other day my wife asked me what I meant when I said we were a bunch of "Hammer Mechanics." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

Rick
 
Rick,
Intersting you say that, my hammers have been good friends trying to get this suspension out so far. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif
 
Grin.... My grand-dad taught me that term MANY years ago. He said when he was a young man, back during the Dust Bowl, people used to poke fun at poor folks coming out to California because of the way they kept up their automobiles, trucks, tractors and other stuff - saying they weren't nothing but hammer mechanics with no training.

The thing is, these folks were doing amazingly sophisticated work with the tools and parts at hand. Grandpa was proud to call himself a hammer mechanic. And ever since I was a kid I've always kept a BFH handy. Grandpa would approve.

Rick
 
...this is why whenever it comes back to reassembly everything with threads and tapered surfaces gets anti-sieze. ~I~ may be the next poor mug to have the job of disassembling it again!
 
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