if its stupid tight and stuck on, the best way to loosen is???

 

BFH!

Honestly, get some good penatrating oil, and let that bitch soak over night. Hit it with a hammer a bit to loosen the crud inside, and then bust it off with a pneumatic impact wrench!!! Lots of oil is the key though.

 

 

I had to cut the one off my old CRX.


[Modified by Zygspeed, 7:54 PM 9/19/2002]

 

what i did is heat up the head tighten it down with an impacy heatit up loosen it as much as possible then i heated it up again then tapped the head a few hard times after a few times it came loose!

before you reinstall it oput some antisieze on it

 

I soaked it for a while with Penatrating oil the try an Impact gun= nothing, then I heatd it for a while then used the impact gun and still nothing. what a bitch, so the kid gave up and he said well try agin when we have mpre time

thanks all!

 

KY will get that **** out!

 

Jusk kidding, I found this stuff before and was buff, I forget but was in a yellow can with some old school advertizments on it....hmmmm... if that does not work use CLR

 

get an impact driver....it is a cylender looking thing, that, when hit with a hammer turns just a few degrees, there is not much that I have not been able to get loose, or break off with one of those.

 

you've got to let it soak for like a day or two or maybe longer. keep reapplying the stuff to get it to soak in. takes time for that chit to work it's way into the threads.

try not to force it cause if it's really stuck, you will break the bolt.

 

might as well go ahead and knock out the whole bushing. I had this exact problem when i put my stock susp. back on the gsr. Broke both LCA bolts, had to drill them out, push out old bushings and get new ones. That was a long day.....

 

Damn, broke both LCA's... that sucks big time...

I forgot about heating it up. Get one of those propane torches, and put some heat up on it. Use heat, penetrating oil, and hitting with a hammer or the impact. Repeat.

Do not use a ratchet with a long assed breaker/cheater bar. You'll twist the head right off of it.

Once it's out. Invest in a tap and die set, and clean up all those threads. Apply anti-seize, and put it all back together!

 

i dont know why everyone seems to run into that problme with the lca bolt.

sit on the hub with your *** a little, and then proceed to hammer out bolt.

repeat in reverse direction when putting bolt back in.

 

Your bolt may have seized to the lca bushing. I had the same problem not too long ago, and no amount of air tool power could break it loose. It came down to cutting the bolt.

Good luck!

 

propane torches may not heat it enough.. if that's the case try an oxygen torch..:0

 

that's a good idea and how i did it with my car.. but i didn't sit on the hub.. i actually jacked it up a little bit so that it was a bit 'lined up' and relieve some of the stress/pressure from just hanging there..

 

I found that few have broken on me, have been bent. I dont really know how. But nearly every honda product the rear lca bolt will break.