3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA
10-26-2009, 06:53 PM
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3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA
I lowered my car today. On passenger side rear LCA, the bolt head snapped off. No worries, I got extra LCA's.
Same thing happened on the other side. No biggie, I'll just change out the LCA. As I'm breaking loose the LCA - trailing arm bolt, that head snaps off too. Now what can I do? Do I need a whole new trailing arm?
Same thing happened on the other side. No biggie, I'll just change out the LCA. As I'm breaking loose the LCA - trailing arm bolt, that head snaps off too. Now what can I do? Do I need a whole new trailing arm?
10-26-2009, 07:50 PM
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Re: 3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA
For some options for dealing with this, see http://honda.lioness.googlepages.com...ion#seizdbolts
10-27-2009, 02:15 AM
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Re: 3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA
the bolt head sheared off. Its still attached to the nut on the other side. There is not enough space to use my cutoff tool to cut the nut off
10-27-2009, 05:03 PM
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Re: 3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA
just going to take a wild stab at it. this is what i would do...
drill out the bolts, yank out the lca since the bolt itself would be weakened, then use a tap to clean out the threads. use new bolts to reattach the lca.
drill out the bolts, yank out the lca since the bolt itself would be weakened, then use a tap to clean out the threads. use new bolts to reattach the lca.
10-28-2009, 02:36 AM
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Re: 3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA
I ended up cutting the nut off, but still couldnt pound the bolt through. So I cut through the bushing and bolt and dropped the lca + shock. This isnt the LCA bolt that goes through the shock, this is the bolt that goes through the trailing arm and lca. 3" cutoff wheel barely had enough clearance to cut it off
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