Features:

  • Heat Treated, Heavy Duty Alloy Steel
  • Tapered Fork End has a 15/16 in Opening
  • Knurled Handle
  • Zinc Plated
buy this!

Got it today and used it already. Works just fine. Nowhere near soft; mine rings like a tuning fork. One simple pickle fork, one small sledge, and no intention to be nice to the rubber boot on the old ball joint. Life is good. Did your pickle fork bend? If so, you’re doing it wrong. This is not a pry bar, a crow bar, or a lever. It’s a chisel. It’s a heat treated hardened chisel. You cannot bend a chisel by hammering it straight on, but if you hammer it in and then push sideways on it in an attempt to pry the ball joint out of its high-friction tapered socket, it will bend. Put a pipe on it as a cheater? It will bend. Stand on it? Yep: bend. If yours is bent then it’s called tool abuse. Just like if you have a bent screwdriver, it’s bent because you used it in a way that it was never designed for. This gets hammered straight inwards. Only. That’s all it does. Don’t blame the tool because you don’t know how to use it.

It took a beating

Popped my upper joints right out, lowers were a serious fight. I beat this thing with a hammer for ages trying to get them out before finally using a breaker bar to pry a little. The prying worked but I could see how one could damage the fork as it's not meant to pry, just hammer. I was working in limited space so more hammer range or an air hammer and it probably would have gotten to lowers out fine too. Overall fine for the price you aren't going to easily break it.

Durable, Functional, and Reliable

This is a pretty low price for this tool, and the tool is built solid. I have used this to separate two ball joints (one on each side) and it worked exactly as intended without any difficulty. I have also used it for separating other stuck joints, and the metal has not dented or bent in any way. If you are tired of going to the auto parts store to rent their pickle fork, this is the best place to buy one of your own.

Did the job

Used this to knock the lower ball joint loose on '00 Mountaineer. Put it in from the side and beat the tar out of it with a ball peen hammer and it popped the joint loose. Scratched the fork up a little but it's ready to go back into battle. Note - don't use one of these tools if you plan on reusing the ball joint as it (like any of them) will destroy the rubber boot.

Works great but not always good.

If you use this understand that you will most likely destroy the boot. It is a great tool to take a bad ball joint off. It is very sturdy and will stand up to using a 3lb hammer on it. I used it on my daughters 2007 Jeep Liberty Sport 4x4 and it separated the bottom of the ball joints from the knuckles with easy.

Pickle fork!

Good for more than just pulling ball joints. Used this to free a driver's side axle from the transmission and I even used it as a crowbar when I was replacing a shingle on my roof... Wouldn't want to do the whole roof that way! Seems like a quality piece for the price, no complaints. Now when is someone going to take a picture of a pickle on a pickle fork? What a sham! :)

Used it on my 95 F150, they took a ...

Used it on my 95 F150, they took a beating and got the job done. Buy two of them so you can keep one Ball Joint under pressure while working on the other.

Buy it.

Absolute tank. I'm very hard on tools and I've put this thing through more than it should have. Still works like it should I had to bend it back after a trip to the yard for a rust welded steering knuckle but it's still kicking.

Solid tool for the amateur and professional

I was quoted $150 to replace an upper ball joint on my Silverado. I ended up paying about $30 for this tool and the ball joint plus about 30 minutes of my labor. This pickle fork is solidly built and well machined. A must have for DIY and professional mechanics.

Great Quality Tool for the Price!

This Ball Joint Separator is made from heat-treated drop forged steel that when tapped sounds off like a Tuning Fork or a Fine Crystal Goblet; it is well worth the price and made easy work of my ball joint replacement job.

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