T/L universal ball joints at gear box lever!

Posted by Bowman Davis On 2009/9/4 19:18:21

I'm not having very good luck getting the screwed plugs out the ball joints at the end of the bars from the gear box to the torsion bars. I'm using the only tool I know of to do the job, which is a socket with a raised blade that fits into the slot of the screw plug and although I did manage a couple turns the threads are binding up , probably with 50 year old crud. I tried retighning the plug and then backing it out but didn't do much good. I also sprayed them with PPB blaster a few times and that seemed to helpp, but not enough.
Anyone have a better way of doing this? Ideas are welcome.