help lower control arm

Doing a 6 inch lift and can't get one of the lower control ARM sharfs out

 

Well, I hope it comes out soon. You'll probably feel much better.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sharf

 

Awesome shaft excuse my spelling with greasy hands

 

LCAs on 2gen Tacos don't have shafts. Do you mean CV axle? Do you mean bushing/cam bolt? Do you mean tie rod?

A picture with a big red arrow pointing at your problem would be the most help.

 

Where the lca bolts to the frame in two spots not the tire side it has a bolt that goes through a shaft and bushing

 

That's a cam bolt and control arm bushing. They control your alignment. Getting them out is mainly a matter of unbolting and donking the shit out of the LCA until it comes out of the frame horn.

 

That's not something that's possible.

 

Workman knows this is possible. Workman has done it.

 

So just beat on it? Its seized inside the bushing

 

Yes

 

And this

 

or this..

 

Wow...

 

bunch of goons, anyways they arent greased from the factory so they seize up and they do not come apart no matter how much hitting or pb plaster. When I pulled mine I had to cut them out and replace them with new ones. Its really common to do so

 

mine were seized pretty good as well durung my LT swap..nothing that some WD-40, a 3lb hammer, and a brass drift couldn't handle. no need to cut anything, only goons resort to cutting stuff off lol

 

I just finished doing mine this past week, had to cut them out...here are a couple of good links to the process

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/217265-lca-question.html

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/su...-replacement-2005-tacoma-4x4.html#post3691528

 

Ha! That's what I was thinking. There is always a way to get seized bolts out. That's why I like air tools for loosening bolts. Those control arm bolts are no match for 750 ft lbs of torque! Not that cutting them doesn't work. I just prefer to not destroy things to get them removed. Although there was this one time I was taking out a control arm cam bolt with an impact gun and it sheared the alignment tab right off!!

 

Others have beat me to it, but mainly:

- Yes it is possible.
- Penetrating oil helps.
- The right tools help.