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ok im trying to remove a steering box from a 72 luv. Well im at the part where i gotta get the pitman arm off the steering box. I rented a pitman arm pull and after getting the nut off the arm i placed the puller on there and started tightening in order to pull it off....welll after about 2 turns i realized it was not going ANYWHERE anytime soon. So guys, is there some kind of weird retainer on this thing that I am missing somehow? Or is it just stuck really freakin hard?

Just stuck freaking hard. When I changed the steering gear box in mine a few years ago, the old pitman arm on the good box I got from the junkyard had to be cut off with a acetylene torch.

i say attack it with a hammer!
....but thats just me

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I said no to drugs....But they just wouldn't listen!

No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap!

NOYZ

The torch came after the big f------ hammer couldn't hack it.

use the puller and as you are tightening it hit the end of the puller with a bfhammer. they are just realley tight. i can do one in the rig.

good luck....and happy hammering

thx guys, got it off finally. I actually put a heat torch to the pitman arm to make it expand a bit and pull off the shaft coming out of the steering box a little bit easier...

you just wernt hitting it hard enough!

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I said no to drugs....But they just wouldn't listen!

No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap!

for some reason the luvs pitman arm seems harder to remove than most. i've removed mine several times and it takes a torch everytime. after breaking a pitman arm puller while using a big hammer, i don't mess with the hammer any more and go straight for the torch.

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1980 chevy luv 4x4 1.8 liter
1979 luv long bed parts truck
1984 2wd isuzu pup parts truck

"A man who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt a man doing it."

I couldnt get mine off.... but im goin to power steering now, usin a box from a monte carlo... so I aitn worried bout it now.