Removing rear spheres on a Xantia?

[Hell Razor5543]

The advantage (if it works) of the hammer and chisel technique is that it also shocks the sphere, which can help break them loose.

[HDI]

I might well resort to that, I have a nice big cold chisel!

[CitroJim]

I might well resort to that, I have a nice big cold chisel!

I can confirm it works but you need a big punch too. use the cold chisel to raise a lip and then use a punch on the lip to do the rest else you’ll find a chisel just makes the lip bigger and bigger and wastes energy in enlarging the lip rather than getting the sphere loose...

I use a 4lb club hammer behind the punch...

[HDI]

Thanks for the tip, I have a punch too. Also a dead blow steel hammer that tends not to take prisoners!!

[Hell Razor5543]

Make sure to smack the chisel/punch squarely upon the head, and NOT upon the thumb!

[CitroJim]

Make sure to smack the chisel/punch squarely upon the head, and NOT upon the thumb!

That's a good tip James

[Hell Razor5543]

Make sure to smack the chisel/punch squarely upon the head, and NOT upon the thumb!

That's a good tip James

I have learnt this from others (as well as some language I cannot find in most normal dictionaries)! Something I try to do is not only to learn from MY mistakes, but to learn as well from the mistakes of OTHERS).

[Stewart(oily)]

If the ram persists in trying to turn then ballast in the boot is what you need, my personal record is a family of four perched in the boot while I belaboured the stuck spheres!

[CitroJim]

If the ram persists in trying to turn then ballast in the boot is what you need, my personal record is a family of four perched in the boot while I belaboured the stuck spheres!

Makes a change from paving slabs or kerb stones!!!