Neil,
I broke many punches trying to remove rivets from an 020(rabbit/golf/jetta)
differential.
To my surprise, a regular bolt worked much better.
Clamp a junk bolt in a pair of vise grips and whack it with a 2 pound
sledge.  I think your results will be pleasing.
I always wear ear and eye protection and leather gloves when doing this type
work...

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
neil N
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:03 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Lower Ball Joint Adaptor Questions (PICS)

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Jake de Villiers
<crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Propane is lame - get a real torch and they'll ease out like buttah!
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:58 PM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

For sure man.

I heated it. Saw bubbles of oil between bolt and adaptor. I pounded
it. One finally moved about a mm before the punch bent and broke! Ha
ha!

The spare control arm is "unknown" but looks straight. But the bushing
in the '81 arm has less play so I may try to get someone to press
those F'ers out of the adaptor. Then again a new bushing might be
cheap.

Still. I just have to "win" ya know.   ;)

Neil.