Tahoe Ball Joints being stubborn

[meade916]

ok guys now that i have another car to roll, i actually have a chance to work on the Tahoe and one of the first things i need to do is replace the upper and lower control arms. I already have DJM 3" drop Lowers and stock uppers.......now the ball joints are so bad on the lower control arms i just got all new shit top and bottom. Anyway to the problem. The driver side came out, with a fight. The passenger lower control arm ball joint wont come out for anything! The hitting the side of the balljoint trick didnt work, the pickle fork didnt work, in fact it ripped the ball joint out of the arm itself and just left the exposed "ball" and still stuck in place. I used heat, i soaked it in wd40...any of you guys have any suggestions?

[white4d96]

Don't own a Tahoe, but when I did mine they were a bitch too. You mean the ball part is still in the control arm or the socket part? On my car the socket part was riveted in, might be a general GM thing.

[Blue]

Need a bigger hammer. Since the ball joint is already dislodged from the lower control arm get a bigger hammer, or you can also remove the spindle and take it to a shop with a press and press it out.

[thehoe92]

if I would have caught this earlier I would have suggested PB Blaster

I had SOOO much trouble with getting the stock torsion keys but with the combination of letting PB Blaster sit and do its job for about 20 minutes and a torch they came out no problem