Trouble with pintle removal.

[us74k5]

I got the nut off of the pintle, but the pintle itself will not come loose of the bumper. Anyone know whats going on?

 

[frodobaggins]

Bigger hammer.

 

[Oldsouthernboy]

give it a couple of shoots of grease in the grease fitting, then close the pintle place big pipe on the pintle and have the kids jump on it.

 

[ca1517]

I ended up taking my bumper off to change mine.

 

[us74k5]

Well I ended up pulling the bumper... Now i have an all new project, get rid of the rust that was forming on the truck behind the bumper. Build newer cooler rear bumper. Oh yeah, and install the new pintle at some point.

 

[grayw0lf]

Don't suppose you have a hydraulic press by chance? I'd estimate it took about 2 tons of force to break the pintle hook free. Years worth of dried up, caked up, contaminated grease locked it pretty tight.

 

[us74k5]

Actually I do... May just try that. Thanks.

 

[Napoleon_Tanerite]

i guess i was lucky... a 3' pry bar and a hammer broke mine loose. now it's free spinning by hand.

You could also soak the thing in some PB blaster... hose it down good, let it sit for a day, and give it a shot. If it's a no go, repeat the process a few more times.

 

[Recovry4x4]

I bent my 5' spud bar breaking the one loose on Dmans Oh-9 but I got it done!

 

[pbrstreetgang]

What kind of wrench do you use to free the bolt or nut that holds the pintle to the truck?

 

[combatmech]

Guess I got lucky...Removed cotter pin, hammer and prybar to get the nut loose. Removed the four bolts and out it came.

 

[pbrstreetgang]

When you get the nut loosened, does the pintle just pull out, or is it threaded into the bumper receiver? Mine will turn from side to side, but will not begin to come out. The nut is backed up to the fuel tank and will not go any further.

 

[jimmy-90]

Gotta laugh having to put more pressure on a hitch than it was rated to hold in the first place with a hydraulic press just to get it to break free without the big nut on it

 

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Chain + Tree + Drive = Removed

 

[OLDCHEV4X4]

Mine came out easy peesy lemon squeezey. Removed cotter pin, turned nut off by hand, slid out pintle hook.

 

[donalloy1]

Much sweat on a Fall Day, 5' Pry bar, pipe wrench and lots of lube whilst rotating back and forth. Put dual purpose pintle/ball combo in its place. Nice mod for me. Looks pretty good also. Six pack later and winded. Good to go.

 

[dstang97]

anyone know the size of the nut off hand?

 

[chupa]

I was "lucky". My M1028 didn't have a pintle hook. I just dropped in a brand new one. "Only" 90 bucks.

 

[p3amea6]

Mine works fine so to keep the mil. look it is

staying on . Put a add on ball hitch.