Doing my coilovers last night and of course the last one will give me problems. Lca bolts stripped it just spins and spins. Any ideas how to get it off with home tools. I have no powerguns. Its on a ek. Thanks guys

 

Drill.

 

Or and angle grinder.

Edit: You could always get a sturdy chisel and just cut it off.

 

Get creative.

 

Yeah ill just have to waitfor work tomorrow and use a drill there

 

Any time you touch those bolts just be ready for them to break.

I sprayed mine with PB buster for several days and got all mine off fine.

 

Out of every bolt on the car this is the only one i had a problem with. I just spraying liquidwrench on it loosen it up but still just spins and spins

 

Did you break the welded nut off on the backside?

 

Nope still there why

 

Cause you will most likely need to retap the hole.

 

Whys that. If i just get a new lca bolt off a ek wont it go back in

 

I never bother retapping. Just break it off and use a new nut

 

Well odds are if it's just spinning the nut is stripped out. Just do what Deetz does that sounds the best.

 

Yeah just went to the junkyard. Didnt find the bolt. Ill get a new one from ho honda tomorrow and put my last coil on tomorrow. Thanks guys

 

honda is gonna rape you with there bolt prices go to hd/lowes and get the same bolt and a lock nut and your good and saved like 10 bucks over honda prices and you can get aircraft grade/ss and will never rust..... when this happened to me just bought new lca and called it a day and got new bolts....

 

I got a new bolt from my buddys shop. Ill just drill the bolt out tomorrow at work replace it and mayb later buy new lcas. I dont have money for them now.

 

Be sure you get the high grade bolt.

Some cheap galvanized aluminum/cadmium bolt will break and you'll ruin your suspension.

 

My bolts from an ek civic so its a stock bolt

 

I put new struts on mine and the the lower bolt on the rear passenger side snapped in the bushing. I ended up cutting the nut off with a disc grinder then tried to get a new bushing from honda which is unavailable so they gave me a new arm complete with bushings and bolts all at wholesale cost to me and I got free shipping too. In the end I took a piece of round stainless and drilled a hole and threaded it then had our welder attach it together for me.

The problem is that the steel bushings along with the bolts is that all it takes is a little moisture to get in there and they get stuck together and there really isn't anyway to spray some penetrating oil in there either. I used anti-sieze on all the bolts when I put mine back together.

What really sucked for me is that I had to remove the brake drum and everything that it attaches too just to be able to get in there with a 4-1/2" grinder because the cutting wheel was too big to fit up in there.

 

Get either ANTI SIEZE or STL8. this stuff will make the bolts all come out freely next time

 

Today at work i got the bolt out. It was snapped in half! I had the heat the threaded side to getthe bottom half of the bolt out lol. But its all out new ones in finishing my coilovers tonight after work. Thanks guys!