2wd guys, how did you remove your idler arm?

[benoit454]

hmm ours did not have castle nuts and cotter pins on it, the new one does I think. The old ones doesn't for sure though. The outer tie rods did, inners did not, ball joints did too.

I haven't got to ours yet, the spindle and lower BJ on the DS has held us up, now it's done though. Driver's side now has new upper control arm, lower ball joint, and PS is up next. No upper control arm for it but new top and bottom BJ's then the new tie rods idler arm and sleeves.

I used the fork on ours as mentioned but used a hammer too and it finally let loose. The lower ball joint was holding into the spindle on the ds, until we took a pickle fork to it again, and used a 16 lb. sledge hammer. A few whacks and it was broke loose, 5 seconds with the ball joint press/ c-clamp tool and it was out.

I'm gonna make a new post about the POS ball joint press. Be looking for it if interested.