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Critical joint 200 1991

uid 27's pic
posted by  Art Benstein on  Fri Jan 31 03:08 CST 2003
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That's an eye-opener.

From what I can recall I have a couple long open-end wrenches angled such that I can wrap my hands around the ends of both and squeeze. Not sure, but may have resorted to the manual impact method once -- put a shorty wrench on the jam nut and give it a swift whack with a two-pounder.

As he's undoing the tie rod end, I figure that is the nut he's speaking of instead of the one retaining its ball joint to the spindle.

I've a "left-the-coffee-pot-on" phobia or compulsion about tightening critical hardware. One trick that has helped in the past when doing many things to a car is to apply a drop of paint to the fastener after being done with it. I have an old bottle of touch-up that stores easily in the tool tray.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore






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