Rear Trailing Arm- Solved

[Timco]

This is the arm in front of the wheel, and the track arm is behind the wheel?

[husker boxster]

My bad. The rear trailing arm is the one that goes ahead of the rear suspension. I will be changing the toe control arm. So does anyone know if a pickle fork will work for dislodging ball joints?

[woodsman]

Originally Posted by husker boxster

My bad. The rear trailing arm is the one that goes ahead of the rear suspension. I will be changing the toe control arm. So does anyone know if a pickle fork will work for dislodging ball joints?

Yes but it COULD damage the boots whereas a 2- jaw puller won't.

[Pdwight]

My rear trailing arms required no pickle fork, only a120 foot pounds of torque to brake loose....are we talking about the same thing here ?

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[husker boxster]

I assume discodavie is talking about #1 in my pic.

I will be changing out the toe control arm (#3). Guess it probably doesn't matter if I damage the ball joint or not since I'll be replacing the arm. I'm also going to replace the bushing in the lower control arm (#2) and I hope I can do that w/o taking the entire lca off. Might be wishful thinking.