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Originally Posted by northern piper
what you need to do is make sure the LCA is attached at the frame. Put a long pry bar between the ball joint and where it attaches. Push down with the pry bar using the frame area as an anchor point for the end of the pry bar (the opposite end you're holding). Before all of this, liberally soak the area with PB blaster or aerokroil penetrant. It will come out, often with a big "pop" . These are suspension components designed to take big loads at highway speeds. Don't be scared to use some ummph, just be careful.
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Yeah, thats what scares me... pushing down so hard on the van while I have it up on jacks. I know that it won't come down... but it just makes me very nervous.
Anyway, I went today to buy a 4' long piece of steel pipe already cut and ready to go. I think that will do nicely now that I have an understanding of how to do this from ya'll here and on youtube.
The biggest problem now is that I have to reattach all this mess just to get that lower ball joint off and tonight I realized as I was jacking up the knuckle to meet the NEW SUPPOSED
"QUICK STRUT" that the welds at the bottom of the quick strut ...... well...... prevent it from being quick. It absolutely will not go into the knuckle....... and at the same moment I realized this my air compressor killed on me. I cannot get it started now.... I haven't drained it in a while or got the oil changed in it in a while... so I hope (if anyone can advise on that, that would help a lot to have my air compressor back on) after I do those things that it will work again.
So I have to file down the welds probably on both new quick struts to get them in the knuckles and hopefully get the air compressor back up and running all to get the lower ball joint off.
I wish I would've known to try to remove the lower ball joint first thing before removing all the other stuff.