Quote Originally Posted by SlowPro48 View Post

The metallurgy of those cheap chinese Harbor Freight pullers isn't the best so when you try to put several hundred ft-lbs of torque on them the claws will break. Advance Auto, Auto Zone, etc. will loan you a high quality pitman arm puller for free. (and their rebuild kits are priced as good or better than those on ebay but you don't have to pay shipping) Squirt some penetrating oil on the sector shaft above the pitman arm a day ahead of time, put the rattle gun to the puller and that pitman arm WILL come off in a matter of seconds without all that beating and banging.
When you refer to a rattle gun are you talking about a pneumatic gun with a ball joint fork on it? Or is that too much for the pitman arm?