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I tried the pickle fork. No way, not even with the suspension arm on the car, or in a vise. The guy at my local wrecking yard also tried the pickle fork on a wrecked mr2 (92 or 93) and beat it with a 7 ot 10 lb sledge. No way.
I bought a $8 pitman arm puller (small one) at harbor freight. It popped all 4 of my joints, and the one on the wrecked car, and my front outer tie rod joints as well, in no time. If you put remove the suspension arm completely, and put it in a vise, BE WARNED that the joint will pop and shoot like a bullet. I put a piece of wood against the wall to keep the joint from denting my garage wall.
Really, the easiest/cheapest thing to do is get the Harbor frieght pitman arm puller. Pictures of pitman arm pullers were posted in this thread prior to my post. Be sure not to get the wide/large one (I happened to have one of those from my truck), and its too big.
You can also rent a ball joint removal kit from Shucks/Kragen, which will have the small pitman arm puller in it.
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