kbmk1023

Ok, please forgive me for a stupid question . But, I cannot get the jam nut loose on my LCA'S. If looking from the front of the vehicle at the axle mount, the jam nut should turn to the left? Correct? I cannot get it to budge, any suggestions?

mkjeep

Use a big pipe wrench and a cheater pipe

kbmk1023

I'm using the crescent wrench we used to tighten them in the first place. Just not sure I'm going the right way?

mkjeep

Lefty loosey, righty tighty, sounds like your going the right way. Mine were a bitch to loosen last time. Banged my hand both times,

wvhasty

I had to take the whole arm off to get enough room to get enough leverage to break them loose last time.

kbmk1023

Ok, I have now completely removed the control arm and the jam nut is not budging!

mkjeep

Do you have a torch? A little heat will help, did you red locktite them?

sktdarkstar8

i had the same exact problem.. i had them on and had to take them off in order to loosen the nut. i took a pipe wrench and put it on the nut and another pipe wrench facing the other direction on the flat part of the shaft right under the jam nut. i had one person push down on the one pipe wrench while i did the same to the other wrench.. worked as easy as pie. and i tried every other way and this worked in a second.. u WILL scratch the paint a bit so be careful and if u have black touch up paint, u can fill in the scratches and u wont rele be able to tell unless ur crazy about detail.. in a situation like this, u cant rele baby them to much even tho u spent alot of money on them. Other wise it makes the process longer and harder if ur toooo careful. good luck

kbmk1023

Thanks for everyone's help. I finally got the one I was having problems with loosened and the other side was much easier. It a pretty tough job for a woman, we don't have that upper body strength.

Mark Doiron

Scratch the paint on the LCA? Does anyone really worry about that?