I tested our cheapo group purchase puller on my TR250 ball joint this evening.
It worked perfectly.
I unscrewed the ball joint nut a little but did not take it off the ball
joint's post -- per the
directions.
I put the ball joint's shaft deep into fork of the puller -- not out on the
fork's finger tips, and
tightened it up. Just tight. I didn't muscle it. Then I took 3 taps with a
carpenter's hammer and it
popped out. The taps were strokes about 10" long. Kind of like the few light
strokes you would take
when starting a 16d framing nail before you start driving it in with full
swings.
In my opinion, for $11.77 it's a deal. I can't imagine breaking one of these
when using the tapping
method, and I'm not sure why you would not use the tapping method. But I guess
if some folks don't
like to tap, there's always the $50.00 pullers.
:-)
Don Malling
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