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[Icey]

I never much like the scissor type, this is the type I use on ball joints:

 

[AeroNotix]

There's nothing stopping you from taking the surrounding parts off the car, taking the whole thing to a vise and getting busy with it there.

 

A few times I've taken the bottom arm off especially to remove stubborn ball joints.

[Cooperman]

I would get busy with a blow torch, a big wedge-type splitter and a large club-hammer. That's always been the final solution, although it scraps the ball joint (needed renewing anyway).

[Spider]

This one and a lump hammer have never failed me

 

[fenghuang]

 is there meant to be an image?

 

There is, and it shows up for me?
It shows a SP scisor splitter and a fork type splitter with one prong snapped off.

 

There's nothing stopping you from taking the surrounding parts off the car, taking the whole thing to a vise and getting busy with it there. [...]

Yes there is. I don't currently have a bench vice ... or a bench ...

 

I would get busy with a blow torch, a big wedge-type splitter and a large club-hammer. [...]

That was what I was trying.

 

This one and a lump hammer have never failed me

I was looking for something like that, but all the local suppliers (including trade suppliers) can only get the cheap cast, pickle forks,

 

Anyway, I eventually got it off. Hurahhh!
Having snapped a fork type splitter, I decided that if the SP scisor snapped as well I'd just deal with that.
It took a whole lotta heat, 8mm of steel plate packed between the ball joint and the splitter, and a whole lotta pulling on a 2ft tommy bar, but finally the joint is loose.

I walked away from it at that point so I've no idea what state the ball joint is in now (I doubt it had 200 miles on it!) but at least I can now get the hub off.

 

Thanks for all the advice.

[nicklouse]

no image showing for me hence the question.

[Dusky]

I never much like the scissor type, this is the type I use on ball joints:
 

Thats the one i linked too, always works for me :) Even in a Corvette recently