[767Jockey]

What's the trick to getting tie rod ends out of the spindles? I have a Jag based torsion bar front suspension. The tie rod ends are good, I need to disassemble the front end to replace the rubber bushings with polyurethane, and replace all the ball joints while I'm in there. I screwed the nut back on the bottom of the tie rod post to protect it and swatted it a few times from below, but the darned thing won't budge. Before I beat the heck out of it and damage it, I thought I'd drop a line on here to see if there's a trick to getting it out. I was thinking about using one of those fork separator type things, but I need to reuse these toe rod ends since they're fine, and the way the thing is mounted if I use that fork separator it will almost certainly tear the rubber boot. Any one have any ideas, or do I just beat the hell out of it till it pops out? I'd really rather not do that, but if that's the normal procedure, than so be it. Buy the way the ball joints are next, so if anyone has any ideas on that, fore away as well. I haven't tried to get them loose yet. That should be fun!