glasshouse
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- lothians
What to heat, the ball or the arm?
Seazed balls
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glasshouse
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- lothians
Cant get anything on!!!!
Stick something in it…buckrake tine etc.
The longer the better
Try to descale the ball as much as you can first - grinder, flap disk/wirebrush (needlegun would be best) then play heat on the outermost parts of the arm trying to keep the heat away from the ball as much as possible.
Try to get the ball in the opposite position to where it is now, descale again then it should free off with a bit of work
Once it starts moving, keep tapping the arm to get the black dry rusty sh!t out of the housing
Try to get the ball in the opposite position to where it is now, descale again then it should free off with a bit of work
Once it starts moving, keep tapping the arm to get the black dry rusty sh!t out of the housing
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Just put a bar in and work it free .
glasshouse
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- lothians
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Have you ran out Of oxygen ?
Things have got serious! Looks like he’s attacking it with napalm.
glasshouse
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- lothians
Bent fork tine
glasshouse
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- lothians
If i could move it, it wouldn't be siezed, would it?Try to descale the ball as much as you can first - grinder, flap disk/wirebrush (needlegun would be best) then play heat on the outermost parts of the arm trying to keep the heat away from the ball as much as possible.
Try to get the ball in the opposite position to where it is now, descale again then it should free off with a bit of work
Once it starts moving, keep tapping the arm to get the black dry rusty sh!t out of the housing
We had a top link like that, left it in diesel all winter. Eventually it moved with a crow bar and hammer.
Heat the arm to make it expand, not the ball
And use a blue flame until the arm is glowing red. You might as well pish in the snow if you're just covering things in soot off a yellow flicker
Remember, nothing is siezed if it's liquid
- Location
- East Essexshire
Big hammer!
I'd clean up the bits I can get to, then put a bar through and keep smacking it hard with hammers. No.4 copper on the ball itself and a 3 or 4lb long handle one on the bar.
The top one might have some joy using a pointy bar as a chisel.
Eventually give up, cut them off and get a pair of weld on replacements!
I'd clean up the bits I can get to, then put a bar through and keep smacking it hard with hammers. No.4 copper on the ball itself and a 3 or 4lb long handle one on the bar.
The top one might have some joy using a pointy bar as a chisel.
Eventually give up, cut them off and get a pair of weld on replacements!
glasshouse
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- lothians
Cant get a bar through!!
I got a bar through thr other one and reversed against the shed stansion.
This one is turned round do a bar wont go in. I got tip of bale spike in but just bent it
This on your old ford?
Cut the buggers off and weld on some hook ends
Life is too short for fixed balls!
glasshouse
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- lothians
Looking for hooky arms already
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