OK I'M changing my driver side axel and I cant get the Control Arm Bolt out.... I'm hitting it with a hammer and it isnt moving and suggestions?

 

Got air + impact gun?

Use a lubricating fluid?

If you have neither of these items and are stumped something you could do is put it back together, drive to a local shop that's not busy. Ask them to put it on a hoist and use their tools to loose it, then midly tighten it back up so you can get home and re-do the job at home with a loosened bolt. I can't see a shop charging too much more than a bribe of beer for this.

-Rik

 

do you think WD40 will work?

 

don 't hit it with a hammer I've had bad stuff happen from that. Try go renting the correct tool to get it removed. Yea u can use some wd 40 to help get it loose its not going to hurt anything.

 

and what is the correct tool ?????

 

There is a ball joint puller. Unless I'm thinking of the wrong part. Do you have a pic.

 

Like vinai over here said, sounds like a ball joint youre trying to take off if youre banging it with a hammer, if so

 

Fawk those things...I busted both my boll joint boots with that chit. But it works, I guess...

WARNING: This is a trick that I use and do not suggest using it...
One trick I've used is place a jack stand underneath the brake rotor. Lower the jack down ever so slowly and let the spring compress a bit. Just a bit...then take a hammer to it...comes out ever time. Well, except when I had to use that fawking, BS-NO-good for nothing ball joint DESTROYER...end rant.

goodluck

 

try that liquid wrench stuff it worked on LCA bolts for me and those were a bitch.

 

its common that that happens. Try the pickel fork (pictured above) or just take a crow bar and get good pressure on the top part of the control arm and start banging away with a hammer. Oh yes and do use some lubricant.
P.S. Don't take the castle screw of all the way just unscrew it enough so you can see a space between them (will help in preventing threading). Just listen for a click when you hammer and you ll know when its off

 

This method is foolproof, and there is a video
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=887859

 

Wow I am so mad, I needed this a long time ago. Darn, atleast I can use it when I change my C.V. boot.

 

Daz a goot trick....

 

1. righty tighty lefty loosy.

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