Control arm seized bearing. Removal. Fj40 1978 (1 Viewer)

[eaj71]

Well, this can’t be right
bearing captured on control arm While taking off from knuckle

Anyone got a picture Of a clean arm ..so I know what to or how to remove this

sheetttt

 

[69LC]

Do you have an acetylene torch? Heat that race up and it will fall off.

If you don’t have a torch, you could carefully cut/break it off by using a cutoff wheel on an angle grinder or whatever you have to shave the race down until you start to see the metal blue. Then try to break the race with a hammer and chisel without digging into the machined arm material.

 

[3_puppies]

X2 on heating up cherry red and hit the hot spot with a hammer

 

[78Landcruiser]

Bottom of that steering arm looks beat and mushroomed, did u have a brief failure?

may need to grind away the damage/ swelled area before removal attempts,


to pull the race I would use a clam shell bearing splitter, most autoparts stores will rent one,

 

[brian]

yeap x2 on mushroomed. you could heat that up till it starts dripping and it wouldn't come off. going to have to grind, and i recommend a flap wheel vs a hard wheel, the stub back to the bearing race.

 

[eaj71]

Hah. Thanks

but....

it isn’t a race.. it is the bearing body without the rollers. So it can’t be on there too bad

Any images of an arm without the bearing attached?

 

[brian]

Hah. Thanks

but....

it isn’t a race.. it is the bearing body without the rollers. So it can’t be on there too bad

that would be the inner race

 

[eaj71]

You can still see the race in the picture... top of the knuckle
It is the bearing body... trapped on the arm... I think..
all those damn little rollers went bye bye

 

[brian]

You can still see the race in the picture... top of the knuckle
It is the bearing body... trapped on the arm... I think..
all those damn little rollers went bye bye

thats the outer race...

the bottom side is identical, internally to the upper, there is no difference in the bearings either.

 

[eaj71]

Ahhhh

 

[1969FJ]

I agree with bearing splitter. This has happend to me , and I used one. I did not need heat.

 

[eaj71]

Awesome!

 

[eaj71]

Bearing splitter worked great!!
No heat