I am nearing the end of my brake swap experience. The rears gave me a headache.

My situation is this: At the front end of each trailing arm is a small compensator arm about 7" long. When removing the bolt that holds this arm to the frame (through the inner bushing on the arm) the bushing had completely seized around the bolt. So when I wrenched on the bolt, the bushing just turned right along with it and was pulled loose of the little compensator arm. I kept this up and it came loose of the front frame mount but bent the rear little bracket...no big deal, I bent it back. About 6 reciprocating saw blades and a bent bracket later I had the bushing sawed through and cut the head of the bolt off to get the chunk of bushing/bolt off of the bent bracket. However, the part that the bolt is supposed to thread through on the front mount (it's an enclosed mount, welded to the frame) is loose on the passenger side, and has fallen inside the closed mount on the driver's side. (I had the same problem occur on both sides)

My question is this: What options do I have to somehow provide a thread on the front mounts?

Here are some pics. Yes... I bent the **** out of the rear brackets, and yes... I did hit the front mount a lil bit with the "sawsall".

Passenger's Side

http://i40.photobucket.com/alb...4.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/alb...3.jpg

Driver's Side

http://i40.photobucket.com/alb...2.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/alb...1.jpg

Cheers!
Leigh

 

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well for damn sure u cannot aline the car....those threads move so u can adjust the alinement...but when i did my rear disk they did not fall in like that...u mite have to cut it open and re welded :[

 

Shitty...well, I guess that puts welding a nut on the inside out of the question. I guess I'll talk to Honda and see if they have a part, or something.

 

Anyone else? Help a brother out?

 

Should anyone encounter this problem in the future and somehow stumble on this thread...I ended up cutting holes in the bottom of the closed mounts and retrieved the threaded pieces from inside. I used a dremel with a cutting disc and it worked perfectly.

It was simply an oblong washerish thing with a round threaded piece attached to it. Apparently it ran along the inside on a runner that was damaged when I bent the **** and pulled out the bushing. I remedied the situation with a flange nut and a nice big washer. The car is getting aligned right now and I am hoping that this does the trick as there is some big time knocking on the passenger side rear suspension when I turn.

Thanks for the help jdmcarbonEJ6! At least someone was able to help a little bit by telling me what the deal was with that mount!

V

 

Oh yeah...and to clarify...the nut and washer I used to rig the compensator arm up were <U>not</U> welded. They still need to be able to move to adjust toe.