<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any ideas?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!<br class=""><div class="">
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