68 Bronco

[Crawdad]

I remember taking the old pitman arm off my 76. It was a bear! I soaked and soaked that thing for days even with the puller on it. Then I decided to use heat from a plumbers torch. I only heated up the pitman arm and not the actual sector shaft. Although the shaft gets hot it won't get as hot as the pitman arm. Don't get it cherry red bc then you start tempering it and could potentially become weaker. When that thing finally came loose it scared the **** out of me so be prepared for a loud breaking noise! Once loose take a watered up rag and hold to shaft, allow it to cool slowly. You don't want to ruin the o-rings and seals inside ur steering box.