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I would remove the shock and spring. You will need a spring
compressor. This requires removal of the bottom ban. There was a
thread on that topic last week.<br>
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With all that tension, I dont see how you can do it with the
spring intact.<br>
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Not alot of work if you have a compressor.<br>
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Bob<br>
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On 01/04/2015 05:20 PM, Jeffrey Gayton wrote:<br>
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Greetings. As you may recall I recently had a memorable experience
with the vertical link on my TR4 separating from the ball joint
while pulling into my driveway. I’m not trying to put things
right, but am having trouble. The workshop manual says to reverse
the procedure for separating them with special tool S.166, which
seems to be unavailable.
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<div class="">I tried using a jack under the spring pan, but the
alignment between the ball joint and vertical link is quite a
bit off and requires a lot of tugging on the wheel to get it to
come even somewhat close fitting. In the end, the upper wishbone
moves up before I’m able to force the link into the ball joint.</div>
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<div class="">Any ideas?</div>
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