My LCA bolt to the rear trailing arm is appears to be rusted. It won't break lose. Any recommendations on good ways to remedy the problem?

 

lots of heat and pb blaster, and good luck

 

PB blaster, it puts WD-40 to shame. get it at walmart. spray your bolt liberly with it. go have a drink. come back. put your socket on the bolt and pound on that socket with a hammer to help brake the rust seal. then try to remove the bolt. if its still stuck. spray it again and go have another drink. and so an and so forth.

i cant stress how much of a pain it is to have that bolt brake. avoid braking it if you can. i went to get a trailing arm of a car at a junk yard once and someone had put red thred lock on all the bolts. i had to cut the part off the car and go home and drill out all the bolts.

 

spray it with pb blaster let it sit for 5 minutes, tap it with a hammer, spray more pb blaster, wait about 30 minutes and it try loosening it again.

 

pb blaster and snap-on

 

heat up bolt and if that dosent work torch it out and replace it with a new bushing and bolt very common in ny state due to salt in the winter

 

some suspension bolts are way too stubborn, theese are grade 8 bolts, and with my impact (1000 ft-lb) all i managed to do was round off the head, get another assy from somewhere and replace yours

 

i feel bad for the people up north

i sprayed pb blaster 3 days before i did my suspension job... the bolt came apart like butta.

 

man my bolt came off when i grabbed my brakes with my hands and used my leg to push on the ratchet. just use LOTS AND LOTS of pb plaster all over the place. it breaks the rust free. use a breaker bar also. or put a scissor jack under your ratchet and jack the ratchet up

 

my **** is seized up...if i cant get it loose...ima have to cut that bitch out and drill it....i want to put on my ****** tein SS suspension on but i cant cuz that **** is all seized up

 

I resorted to cutting it (i didn't want to) but nothing else was working.

hammered out the bushings and will just need to get new ones.