[s-cars] Tie rod end removal

[Rob Pecsar]

Not sure about the orientation, but can you use the weight of the car 
and pop it loose by jacking up on the tie rod end?

The tool I recall is called a "pickle fork" ; google it.

HTH,

Rob Pecsar
95 S6

Wylie Bean wrote:

>Paul, did you say you'd tried PB Blaster? I've deleted your original email.  You may have to let it sit for a while, but that's pretty good stuff. 
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>Wylie Bean (via blackberry)
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Paul Heneghan" <paul at heneghan.co.uk>
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>Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 21:38:02 
>To: 'Fred Munro'<munrof at sympatico.ca>; 'S-Car-List \(E-mail\)'<s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Tie rod end removal
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>Hello Fred,
>
>The conical sleeve is called the clamping ring in ETKA, and one gentle whack
>made that come loose surprisingly easily.  The bit that's giving me problems
>is unscrewing the tie rod end from the tie rod.  It hasn't moved in 13
>years, and it doesn't want to budge.
>
>Paul
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