2005 Astra Lower Control Arm Removal

Doylers

[HTML][/HTML]Hey guys but of an issue, so I was clamped in my own parking space at my complex by NCPS.Wont be paying anything so I'm taking the clamp off. Had a look today at the clamp and the easiest was is to disconnect the lower control arm and slide the cain off.

I took the nut and bolt off the arm where it connects over the the disk break. I then put the tyre back on the car and lowered it to try cove the ball joint out of the socket but it wouldn't move at all for me.

Any ideas on how to go about it?

Edit: Is that a second nut to be opened with an allen key or something ? L

Interslice

Its clamped onto the bj. Plenty of wd! You can seperate the clamp by prising it open. You can stick an allen bit in on a ratchet to try a rotate the bj. Looks like a bit of heat on the clamp part wouldnt go amiss either. Youll probably need a new ball joint which looks a bit like it doesnt come seperate to the wishbone on yours. Might be handier to pay the 80 quid.

battery powered angle grinders are a handy yolk

Doylers

Interslice wrote: »

Its clamped onto the bj. Plenty of wd! You can seperate the clamp by prising it open. You can stick an allen bit in on a ratchet to try a rotate the bj. Looks like a bit of heat on the clamp part wouldnt go amiss either. Youll probably need a new ball joint which looks a bit like it doesnt come seperate to the wishbone on yours. Might be handier to pay the 80 quid.

battery powered angle grinders are a handy yolk

I'll give it a go. The want 120 not 80 car is in pretty crap condition anyway so I have no issues messing around with it, maybe I learn something haha

I was thinking about the angle grinder route, but most of the threads on here mentioned criminal damage and I don't want to go getting myself in too much trouble

Interslice

Doylers wrote: »

I'll give it a go. The want 120 not 80 car is in pretty crap condition anyway so I have no issues messing around with it, maybe I learn something haha

I was thinking about the angle grinder route, but most of the threads on here mentioned criminal damage and I don't want to go getting myself in too much trouble

Ye try to avoid the angle grinder route. It should pop for you if you've the right tools. Sometimes if you take two hammers and hit either side of the ball joint at the same time they'll pop. You'll need to drive a chisel or a big srewdriver into the clamp to open it first. Before all that drown it in wd and leave it a few hours.

mullingar

Undo the nut/bolt #1.

#2 is the top of the ball joint rod.

That #1 nut/bolt is holding the ball joint rod in place like a vice. You need to wedge that open a touch to allow the ball joint pin to slide out downwards .

Doylers

mullingar wrote: »

Undo the nut/bolt #1.

#2 is the top of the ball joint rod.

That #1 nut/bolt is holding the ball joint rod in place like a vice. You need to wedge that open a touch to allow the ball joint pin to slide out downwards .

We have success, I took the nut out, covered it in WD40 and used a screw driver to open out the wedge part. Few slaps of a hammer made it pop out nicely.:):):)

Happy days then my car is free :D:D:D

Should I let them know their clamp is available to be collected?

Interslice

Doylers wrote: »

We have success, I took the nut out, covered it in WD40 and used a screw driver to open out the wedge part. Few slaps of a hammer made it pop out nicely.:):):)

Happy days then my car is free :D:D:D

Should I let them know their clamp is available to be collected?

Nice one. I wouldnt let them know that you even knew it was there. Leave if against a lampost or sell it for scrap.

dor843088

Awesome. Cheeky b******s good enough for them.