How To Remove a BAD Pitman Arm, FAST...it FALLS RIGHT OFF!
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- When your Pitman Arm is JUNK and you need to REPLACE IT, this is the only way to do it and keeps your sanity at the same time :) You will spend hours on removing a rusted and stuck on steering/pitman arm, DO THIS and have it off in 5 minutes. This method will keep you from destroying you steering box with heat or pounding on it.
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Broke one puller.new i should have cut and split the dam thing. Nice video
Keith Lea thank you very much, and I'm with you on that, when the arm is toast and needs to be replaced this video is the only way to remove and keep your sanity at the same time :)
You may need to use this amzn.to/331VKar to remove any burrs on the shaft in order to install the new pitman arm. Thanks for asking my friend. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
I've broke many puller before I discovered this, it is the only way to do it.
This video just saved me hours of fighting with my puller here in Canada on a rusty escalade with a crossmember right in the way of the steering box, thanks for the info!
Glad we could help!! Thank you so much for watching and sharing your results, we really appreciate it, have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
spent two hours and two pitman arm pullers on my 01 Tahoe yesterday. Found this and got it off in about 10 min. Thanks.
Awesome!! Glad we could help! Thank you for watching and sharing your results, hope you have a great week my friend. mad Mike & team
You saved me today! Thank you sir, you are genius. I ended up using a sawzall with a thick metal blade and it broke loose in ten minutes. I found your video after one day of cursing and dreaming of setting fire to my truck. Cheers. 🍻
Glad I could help Scott! LOL, thankfully you didn't have to set fire to your truck my friend, thanks for watching and sharing, you made us all laugh this morning :) Hope you have a fantastic day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Excellent idea.
I was putting this off because everyone said it was so hard.
True you have to remove the 3 21mm. steering box bolts to get the arm off.
It's not hard to deal with, I've done steering box's before and some were a pain in the ass but this one ain't bad. No need to completely remove, it'll move around enough to work with after you get the bolts out.
I took the nut off the spindle ( 1 5/16) then put 1 bolt back in for stability and cut a little past half way and hit it in the cut with the air Chisel.
The damn thing FELL off no problem.
No Fear..Thanks again.
Great to hear my friend! Thank you for watching and sharing, we truly appreciate it, have a fantastic day! mad Mike the hammer SPC
Hey Thank You for Posting this video. My soaked my rusted on pitman arm for several days, used a puller and came to the conclusion that something was going to break. Watched your video, cut the arm, cracked it with the air hammer and used the puller to get it off. Thank You for saving me broken tools and a big headache.
Great job! Glad we could help Clif! Thanks for the view and comment, hope you have a great day. mad Mike & team
Super smart, if I did think of doing this it would have taken a lot of beer and breaking things before I did. Broke a pitman arm puller today, will definitely try this tomorrow.
LOL! thanks for watching and sharing Dawson, we appreciate it. Hope you have a great day and all the best on that project my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
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AMEN! lol. Like everyone else, I spent too long with PB, a torch, apuller, an impact, and an air hammer. I cut the slit, chisel in the side (watch those threads), and put the puller back on. BAM it pops off in SECONDS. God bless you, brother! 😅
Thanks for sharing, we appreciate great subscribers like you and truly are thankful!! Nice work!! Have a great night, Sean! mad Mike the hammer SpC
Great video. I couldn’t get it to split with the air chisel but the cut softened it enough that the puller yanked it effortlessly. You saved me a ton of grief. Thanks!
Awesome Lyndel! Glad we could help, I've been frustrated by that same issue before coming up with this handy idea :) Thank you for watching, have a fantastic week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Broke a puller, and almost broke a breaker bar trying to get it free, tried to put the picklefork in there and beat on it with a rubber mallet before upgrading to a sledgehammer, none of it worked. Eventually took your advice and went to it with a grinder and cut my way through, about 95% through and I used the picklefork as a chisel and struck it a couple times with the sledgehammer and it came out. My '06 Avalanche is running like new with the new pitman arm on.
Did my first pitman arm on a 1990 Chevy truck.. remembered your video so a made the cut . Saved my tool and hr of grief. Thank you
Nice!! Good job, so glad we could help Joe! Thank you for watching and sharing your results, hope you have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
This video is right on i needed to replace pitman arm on my chevrolet silverado with the 5.3 i tryed everything i olmost gave up i came across this video it save me 400 dollars thanks man veryy helpful.
Pedro glad we could help you out :)
Nice video. Tried this today at work, this will be the only way I do a pitman arm.. Thanks for posting!
Very welcome Jeff as they say frustration builds invention and we’d had all we could take of busted Pitman arms that would not come off so now we just take them up that way in less than 10 minutes
Yes it worked like a charm. Thanks for the video. Top notch.took less than five minutes start to finish.
Keith Lea glad we could help you my friend :)
Man thanks so much! Just changed a factory pitman arm on a 99 grand marquis broke 2 pullers before I watched your video! Much appreciated!
Glad we could help Michael! Thank you for watching and sharing, hope you have a fantastic day. mad Mike & team
Hell yes, glad to see I’m not nuts for utilizing similar techniques (cutting a relief notch into bastard fastener and cracking apart!). I hadn’t thought about this method with really big stuff like pitman’s though! I’m about to embark on a ‘99 Tahoe with a real sloppy pitman so thank you for this!
Btw, love the Bruce Campbell (Ash, Evil Dead films) esque narration; great voice man. Subscribed.
Glad we could help my friend! Thank you for watching and sharing, we truly appreciate it, and thanks for the sub! Have a Happy New Year! mad Mike the hammer SPC & team
yeah baby! creativity at its finest! thanks for sharing
Thank you so much! took no time at all! Took my sway bar off (5 mins) and used angle grinder. cut straight into the very back of the arm. tapped my chisel in there and I was able to wiggle it off by hand. Thanks again!
Very much for sharing glad we could help you
Awesome video brother!!! I spent the last day trying to use a puller, spraying PB Blaster and even tried beating on it with a steel rod from up above. Used the die grinder and air chisel method you describe in this vid then put the puller back on....one burp with the impact gun and if fell right off.
Awesome! Glad we could help, thanks for watching and sharing your results, we really appreciate it, have a great week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Broke store rental puller. Cut off wheel and air chisel that I've had and not used in 20 years. This technique works!
LOL, glad we could help Dave! Thanks for watching and sharing your results, have a great week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
now thats good thinking! any suggestions on how to crack the pitman arm after the relief cut without an air chisel?
2ndA yes grab a BFH and a high-quality chisel and get to wackin...you will get it quick :) thanks for the great question
hammer and regular chisle?
Here's a time-saver lay old part and new part side by side make sure notches in splines are correct and right position. Ran across timing chain gear marking wrong position before.
Brother man, I can't believe I didn't even think of this. Thank you!
Glad we could help, it's our pleasure. Thank you for watching and commenting, we really appreciate it my friend. Hope you have a great week. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Great advice!!! Thanks for the tip.
thank you buddy. you saved my weekens! wish i didnt hit it with a torch prior to using this method. hope my seals hild up.
jitterspec good deal my friend glad we could help :) it is the only way we take them off now..
Didn't have power chisel but cutting through it with an angle grinder gave it enough flex for the pitman puller to take it off in 2 seconds with almost no effort. Cut a little into the threads cuz I wasnt careful enough but nut threaded on fine. Thanks for the vid!
Awesome christian! Thank you so much for watching and sharing your results, have a great week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thumbs up 👍😎, dig it man, now that bolt is from gear box? I ask due to me removing one from 1984 S10 carb. 2 barrel Varajet TAHOE V6 2.8L automatic 700R4 ext. cab gracias for your help and support....
Worked like a charm. Thanks for the tip!
Glad it helped! Thank you for watching and sharing your results, we really appreciate it, hope you have a fantastic weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Busted a new puller before trying this. Thanks for posting it
Tracy Wagoner you are very welcome glad we could help
This was the BEST solution, thanks sooo much!
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks "Sweet project cars" why waste time pulling and hammering this awesome technique only takes minutes and the part was off! no damage to other components just on to the next project...
Thanks David
Thank you so much. Got it off in few minutes after trying with puller and press for hours.
Glad it helped John! Thank you for watching and sharing, we truly appreciate it. Have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Love the video sir...the best video out...the puller was just not going to work at all...i should just cut it like i did 1 of the tie rods one of them was stuck fused into the hole
Thank you for sharing Chris! Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Now you tell me! You know the other sweet thing about those air chisels is you can get in where there's no room to swing a hammer. Too bad I don't have one! Thanks for this!
You got it buixote! Glad we could help! Thank you for watching and sharing, hope you have a sweeeeet week my friend. mad Mike
I was gonna completely rebuild my gear box, but couldnt get the pitman arm off (my new puller even stripped threads trying to get it off). I was going to just cut it off, as shown in this video, but I cant find a new pitman arm for my vehicle anywhere. So I just pulled it apart enough to replace the seals that were leaking and calling it good for now. What a pain.
Wonderful idea...I'm with you.
Glad to hear! Thank you for watching and sharing, have a great weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
I'm about to get the cut off tool and saw this pitman arm off. But I think there must be something I'm doing wrong or a correct way to remove it. See what's on youtube. Found this! Thanks for the video. And great tip on the grease on the puller. Not many people know that.
It is truly the easiest way to remove a bad Pitman arm that’s for sure
You’re the best! Saved me.
Glad we could help Tevin! Thank you for watching and sharing, have a great week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
I didn't have an air chisel, but did the same thing with a hand chisel and a hammer. Thanks!
👍👍👍 GOLD!!! 👍👍👍
Worked an absolute treat!!! Cheers
Excellent! Thank you for watching and sharing your results my friend, we really appreciate it WaZ! Hope you have a fantastic weekend. Cheers mad Mike the hammer SPC
Great idea. I just tried to get mine off just the other day. I used the same puller and wound up braking the lip off the puller. I will do this idea next, Thanks 👍
Glad to help! Thank you for watching and sharing, have a fantastic rest of your week my friend. mad Mike
It worked like a charm, thanks again ❤
Thanks! I was getting ready to do this myself last Sunday on my Tahoe. Got tired of soaking it in liquid wrench and beating it to death. I soaked it one more time in liquid wrench beat on it with my air hammer and it finally came lose! At least I know I have other options now. Relief cuts and a steady hand! :-)
YES a Very steady hand lol and a good hand air cutoff tool and it was a night an day difference how it just falls off....glad I could help.
96 mercury cougar ball joint
Sweet Project Cars just wanted to say thank you. I tried to pull this off for 6 hours. With your method I had it off in 5 minutes.
wish i would’ve watched this before i bought three removal tools haha
LOL, well, next time my friend! Thank you for watching and sharing, have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Absolutely a must have "Plan C" for anyone's toolbox! Thank you. "Plan B" is the smokehammer, but not always viable.
We're with you on that my friend! Thank you for watching and sharing, we really appreciate it, have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Absolutely brilliant!
thank you very much :)
Nice. But
What's the point in getting/using the puller???
Excellent tip. The other is for a thrust bearing removal. Little bit of grease, a shaft of very similar size and give it a tap. It'll almost hit you in the face it comes out so fast.
thanks muz
Thanks a bunch. I was about to heat it up, but decided to see what was on the web. Thanks to the video, I instead use a Dremel with a cutoff wheel, then used my air chisel to complete the break. (A cold chisel and hammer might have worked, too.) The arm then came free without issue. Kudos to the video makers.
thanks Doug
Makes sense. Thanks!
What about the other side? My linkage bolt snapped about a 16th of an inch deeper than flush. How can I get the bolt out?
can you send a pic to us sweetprojectcars@gmail.com
Thanks much, the one on my Ram 1500 is giving me hell right now, I'm about to do this tomorrow!!!
Drum Major glad to help my friend, with this method you will have no more removal issues.
"You'll save yourself time and anguish" Hell yes!!!
glad to help Tripper
How much was done before this to get to this step? Total novice here but It looks like the pitman arm joint was removed then the tire was removed to get the pickle for in right? Was there anything else? In other videos I've seen them remove the steering box completely, is that not necessary with this method and you can leave it in?
xMrSilver jack up the car no need to remove the wheel, just cut the pitman arm and it will come right off with a air chisel...bam done
I think we softened that bushing up when we used heat. Watched this video a week too late ! Can this bishing be replaced? I have a 95 toyota pickup
You can check with your dealership and see if it can be replaced, some can, some cannot, I wish I had a better answer for you. Your dealership parts department will have a better answer for you my friend. Thanks for watching and asking, have a great day and all the best on your project. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Done this on rusted on torsion bar keys and it worked like a charm.
Good deal thank you for sharing
Narrator sounds like "Pryce" from Better Call Saul. 😎
LOL, thanks for watching, we appreciate the view and comment, have a fantastic weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
That's a great point about not destroying the seals....that would be a major bummer.
It sure would MarzNet!! Thank you for watching and commenting, hope you have a fantastic day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
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Life saver!
nice tip. my 01 chev has very little room but cut off wheel works great
that's great :)
Awsome advice , Thanks
thanks Jeffery :)
when the gear box leaks can we just buy the seal it self or we hasto buy the whole gear box.when you removed the pitt arm i seen a seal in it .mine it leaks & i don't know what 2 do.any suggestions? thanks
you can buy the seal on some depends on the car or truck...check with your local auto parts store good luck
Sweet Project Cars thanks bro .mine is a 96 gmc sierra 6.5 but it looks just like the yukon you working on
How did you remove the smaller side after you got that side off? You cut it as well?
I sure did, no sense battling with them, just cut them off my friend. Thanks for watching, have a great weekend. mad Mike
Can confirm on this method! But if yours is really stuck you might have to cut in another line to allow it to fold open off the spines shaft
Thanks for sharing, Jackson! Have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
I am trying to replace my pitman arm but can't fit the puller between the gear box and the pitman arm. Going to try cutting it later today. Hoping I'll them be able to pull it off with my hand since I can't fit the puller between the components.
I pretty much guarantee you if you cut that arm 75% of the way through and use a chisel and hammer placed in the cut it will crack the remaining material and drop right off. Thank you for watching and sharing my friend. Good luck on the project. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Just taught a old dog a new trick...
Thanks....
Nice!! Glad we could help islandboy! Thank you for watching and commenting, have a fantastic weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Jam a crowbar or good prybar in between having it in upper side of pitman arm and lower side if frame, the start the vehicle and turn the wheel, works every time
Thank you very much for sharing we truly appreciate that have a great night
Don't amatuers and various other hacks need to learn and be reminded that brute force and panic have no place in successful mechanical work.
yes you are correct Carl, most of the time using a little patience and ingenuity will work everytime.
Nice tip!
Thank you very much! Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Life saver👍
My truck is a 2000, I took a little bit of PB blaster and a 6 foot bar and cranked on it for one minute and it popped right out
Thanks for watching and sharing, have a great week Jeremiah. mad Mike
I put the pitman arm puller on, then applied a touch to it for about 7 minutes, the thing popped off like butter!
Nice! Thanks for watching and sharing, have a fantastic weekend my friend. mad Mike & team
I'm about to tackle this job on my 1992 Pajero and from all the research I have done I have been warned it will be a real bitch. I have now have my Plan.B sorted. Cheers heaps for sharing this.
Aaron glad to help Thank you very much for the great comments and sharing great info that Is good for the whole channel
Nice idea !
Glad you think so! Thank you for the view and comment, we truly appreciate it Nurlan. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
This is especially true in canada. had to do this on a silverado once
thank you very much for your great comment, it's great for the whole chain to have good people like you here :)
Freaking A. Thank you dude. That worked awesome
Glad it helped Marcus! Thank you for watching and sharing, we appreciate it, have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Got a ke35 corolla with leaking pitman arm seal ,going straight to this method as I was going to replace the arm whilst it was out anyhow .thanks alot guys
Glad we could help! Thank you for watching and sharing, hope you have a great day and all the best on your project my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thank you!!!!!
you are welcome Real George
Yup I have had to cut sevlal pitman arms off if the cutoff toon wont fit I have used a sawsall and cut at an angle. Pounding on a pitman arm will damage the steering box.
Thanks for sharing, we've found the method we share works every time. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Awesome THANKS
Glad to help my friend! Thank you for watching and commenting, hope you have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Wow that is fast I just need to purchase those tools you have
Just purchase items as you can afford them Corey, soon you will have the tools you need to take care of many of your own projects. Thanks for watching, have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
@@SweetProjectCars Thank you So much. You are So Nice and Helpful
Very good ol chap
Glad you liked it Ricky! Thank you so much for watching, we truly appreciate it my friend. Have a fantastic weekend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Yep you nail it!!👍
Glad to help El Garfio! Thank you so much for watching, we really appreciate it, have a great week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks I'm doing one now, I'm going to try it, that sob ain't budging.
Wow ten minutes and it fell right off. Thanks again for the vid.
Good deal glad it worked for you we don’t even mess with them anymore we just cut them and show them apart saves us so much time
Good deal glad to hear that my friend
I’ll be doing this tomorrow.
Awesome, Stacia! Thank you for watching and sharing, have a great day, and all the best on your project. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks!,,
Man Card Award.
LOL, hope that is a good thing :) Thanks for watching, have a great weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
hell yea
I should have ground mine versus heating and beating. I did grind on the case of the gear and did heat and beat beforehand. Thus my core is messed up. Be careful with the grinder. Oh and shop owners need to quote a new arm whenever a job requires removing it from an old car. It doesn't always come off nicely
Yup, can't heat these or beat it... Seal and other Components will get damaged !!! Best is to CUT IT, plus they are not reusable parts anyway.
Well Derp! FK me. Why the heck haven’t I been doing this for the last 40 years? I owe you a pint of shine!
LOL, glad you found us my friend! Thanks so much for watching and sharing, we truly appreciate it. Have a great weekend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Pitman arm on my S-10 is considered a non-wearable part, almost no one sells it and those that do are $140+.
I definitely need to avoid cutting it off. But I'm having a hell of a time separating the center link from it.
there are many ways to remove but when it comes to ruining other parts to get it off you really have to weigh the cost on whether you should cut it off.
Sweet Project Cars I've bent 3 pitman pullers so far. Tried on the center link end as well as the steering box end. No dice.
What would you use? I don't care about the center link since it's the part I'm replacing. I do care about the pitman arm because it's stupid expensive for all it is.
Sweet Project Cars I had a sudden spurt of brain power.
All it took was a smaller pickle fork.
Why the heck I didn't think of that before, I have no idea lol.
But it popped right out and I got all four tie rods, idler arm, and adjustment sleeves installed since my previous comment.
dchawk81 I would just use a pickle fork that will be small enough to work and put the flat side against the gear box if the rubber boots rips than try and find one that will fit in it. Other than that your best bet will be to pull the gear box off then use a pitman arm puller. It seems like a lot of work to some people but you'll actually end up saving time in the long run because more than likely pulling it off will be the easiest way to get a new one back on.
dchawk81 hahaha Nevermind, I didnt see your update on it😂 glad to see that it worked out for ya
Interesting take. Makes some sense. These tie rods. Pitman arms and idler arms only coat 20 25 bucks. Seems like it's more expensive in time and effort to remove, just cut the damn thibg
Just another thank you. Only regret is I didn't do this first.
Our pleasure Barry!! Thanks for being here with us! We truly appreciate all of our great subscribers like yourself! Have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks bro
Our pleasure Edward. Thanks for being here with us my friend. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks
Glad to help Luis! Thank you for watching, hope you have a fantastic week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks for the 411.
I will test you idea.
Please do! Thank you for watching and sharing, have a great day and all the best on your project my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
It works 😳
It’s not fast but it’s predictable and repeatable. It is now officially the proper way to do it.
(1999 suburban).
LOL also pre cut the new old before installing
You can do that, but we have found that new pitman arms will outlast the owner. Thanks and have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Smart
As long as you have the pitman arm off why not go ahead and replace the seal while you can get at it?
+ed kay - Yea, that is a great idea :))))
I spent 6 hours trying to get the arm of on Friday night
I'm gonna try this broke the nut of the pitman arm puller and then found this video wish me luck
Go get em! Thanks for sharing. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Pro.....
justin thank you very much my friend :)