Dieter
Are you talking about removing the tie rod taper fitting to the hub? If so, I always use a 5 pound hammer and hit the hub on the outside of the taper while applying pressure to the tie rod. It has never failed me even when the old "pickle forks" didn't work. If that was not what you were referencing then I apologize in advance as I know you are a very competent mechanic.
Tom
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, then he said that will be "$ 249.85 including the 6-month alignment, plus taxes"
. Well, if I learned something in school, then that this is wayyy too much. It turned out he wanted to sell it to me now for 89.95 (or more or less) per side! He said he needed at least 1 1/4 hours per side for replacing them, times $ 75 per hour, and he can't give it to me for less (so it is only "or more, but not less" now?). He was not the friendliest of mechanics/salesmen anyway. I walked away, got a fork tool for $ 10 at O'Reilly, went home and replaced the tie-rods myself. I didn't use any power tools since I was doing it in my garage, I was just too lazy to make room in the basement (where all my tools are). Including about 5 trips down to the basement to get the right tools, including the use of a small aluminum jack and a muscle-powered lug wrench, including telling this story to my wife, cleaning up the garage and washing my hands I needed 45 minutes - for both sides. And I didn't even hurry. Guess who will not make my wheel alignment? Definitely not TiresPlus!
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