Urgent help needed! LBJ locator sleeve stuck in spindle

[Rushthezeppelin]

Tried to get the old moogs off and this did not come with the LBJ but instead decided he wanted to live rusted into my spindle. I did hit it with PB and tried yanking it out with vicegrips. Worried to try some other ideas I have for fear of damaging my spindle.

 

[Rushthezeppelin]

Crisis averted. Just had to let the PB soak a little longer and give it some hammer taps. I'll leave this up in case anyone runs into this

 

[brillo_76]

Is your cv joint leaking or just grease on it from the lbj project?

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[Rushthezeppelin]

Is your cv joint leaking or just grease on it from the lbj project?

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It has a very very very slow weep, probably leaked less than half an ounce over three months. Keep forgetting to try and clean it up and see if I can't repair it with shoe goo.

 

[gamefreakgc]

I have never seen that happen before, but then again I've never used or installed Moogs and heard nothing good about them compared to the OEM Toyota LBJ's. One more reason to go with OEM's.

 

[Rushthezeppelin]

I have never seen that happen before, but then again I've never used or installed Moogs and heard nothing good about them compared to the OEM Toyota LBJ's. One more reason to go with OEM's.

So glad I replaced those things. I think after getting them out they were more worn than I thought, one of them felt fairly gritty and both were actually tighter than the OEMs. Don't know if there is a difference in construction that would account for that but not interested in finding out. Also one of them had a mismatched bolt in it so this was obviously not a professional job and who knows if they were torqued properly or possibly even overtorqued which could have led to the bolts shearing (the whole reason I escalated this repair was after running into another 3rd gen on the trail who was telling me to replace the moogs after he had the bolts shear off).