KiD Fr0m Da 516

I've searched and havent found anything so here it goes, my friend and i were doing springs and struts on my new ej and we did the front fine. We lift the bak everythings going fine until snap wtf, the head of the bolt that connects the control arm to the strut area broke off. Now im stuck in a delema if theres anyone who had this experience or any advice i can use it asap my car looks retarted front lowered and back raised well thanks ~Jason

tominos

drill the bolt out and rethread to the next bigger size...
or drill out, and use a heli coil to use the same size bolt
or.. use an easy out... bolt extractor. good luck

p.s. spray some lube on it first(wd40)

zman

Same thing happened to my 5th gen coupe. Well, what i did was take the whole lower control arm off the car, it makes things easier. Cut the welded nut on the back of the factory strut assembly off (i was reusing the struts) and then cut the bolt between the LCA and sturt fork with an air cut off tool. And pressed the bushing that the bolt you broke off goes through, to save from encountering this later, and replaced the bushing and bolt. See, what happens is the bolt that holds the strut to the LCA is splined, and over the years rust forms in between the splines. Thats why you snapped the head off the bolt. To me it made more sense to replace the bushing too, so that i wouldn't just be putting a new bolt into a rusty bushing. And when you put the new bolt back in when installing the new struts and springs make sure to use some anti-seize so that bolt will come out again if necessary. Anyways good luck with that its kinda a pain in the neck.

KiD Fr0m Da 516

whew okay, i was told i had to buy new control arms and i really am low on $$ since i juss got the struts and springs lol well thanks a lot and more tips are welcomed.