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3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA

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Old Oct 26, 2009 | 06:53 PM
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Default 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?
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Old Oct 26, 2009 | 07:45 PM
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pound that **** out, I had to do it on mine.
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Old Oct 26, 2009 | 07:50 PM
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Default Re: 3 bolt heads snapped on my LCA

For some options for dealing with this, see http://honda.lioness.googlepages.com...ion#seizdbolts
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Old Oct 27, 2009 | 02:15 AM
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Default 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
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Old Oct 27, 2009 | 05:03 PM
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Default 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.
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:36 AM
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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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