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On 24 Jul 2001, at 21:01, Henrik Larsson wrote: > Jim Adney wrote: > > > Which part are you trying to replace? Why are you taking this > > apart? I agree that it would be foolish to destroy a perfectly good > > ball joint. Good ones are hard to come by. > > To make a long story short: > 1. The car was too low when I bought it and I was going to raise the front > suspension. > 2. The head of one of the ball joint clamping bolts snapped off when I > removed it. > 3. I'm trying to remove the steering knuckle + ball joint to be able to use > a drill press to drill out the remains of the bolt. > > My hand held drill's speed is way too high to use with a 8.5 mm drill and I > don't think I will be able to use the right force and drill straight if I'm > working with the parts still on the car. My uncle have just bought a drill > press and I was going to use that. I know it seems like a pain, but I have done this with a variable speed hand drill with the ball joint in place. I know the drill press would drill the bolt out cleaner, but if you had just gone in there with the right hand drill you'd be done by now. > If the hammer + chisel method doesn't work, how about using a angle grinder > on the nut. If I'm careful I think I can weaken the nut without damaging the > threads on the ball joint. You might also be able to just split the nut with a cold chisel, but either way you still have to find a replacement nut. I'd leave it alone and do the work where it is. I'm afraid you'll end up having to fix other things if you keep this up. 8-( Unfortunately, this is one of those cases that has no really good answer. - Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/