I used a ball joint fork and a tie rod fork, no dice. Eventually, the whole tie rod end just popped off and left nothing but the bolt with a shiny, metal ball exposed on top of the spindle. That's when I went to the hardware store and bought a 40$, 6lb sledgehammer and got it out with a few good whacks to the bolt from underneath. I'd never seen anything like it, it was nuts. After that, installation was pretty straight forward.