removing all my suspension arms to throw on a prothane bushing kit, and low and behold, my compensator arm bolt is seized to my bushing in the componsator arm.. now, it can't be the easy one, that's attached to the trailing arm.. it has to be the one connected to the toe adjustment screw.. i know it's not seized on the bolt, i can loosen it.. but now it's bending the mount.. YIKES!!! anyone can help? and can i just cut the bushing off? but i don't want to bend the mount anymore.. i hate rust and pb blaster isn't working... neither is a big hammer.. i'm lost.. i love my CRX, but this is making me hate it... thanks in advance...

 

While trying to remove this bolt, are all the other bolts on the trailing arm still fastened? If the trailing arm is sagging a little bit, I can see you having some difficulty removing that compensator arm bolt, just due to bad alignment of the parts making them bind. Undo the compensator arm first, and move your way back, I'm thinking.

Mike-who had a "jolly good" time replacing compensator arms and trailing arm bushings this weekend.

 

nope.. everything is off the car except that one bolt.. fun, eh?

 

Is the bushing turning in the compensator arm? If not, an impact wrench might bust it loose without bending the mounting, since it only applies rotational force, not lateral force like a breaker bar. If the whole bolt/bushing mass just spins, it may be time to get out the sawzall.

 

I'm thinking you should maybe attach the rest of the trailing arm back to the car first, before trying to remove that bolt. If you've got the trailing arm dangling, it sure might be tough to remove that bolt. Bolt it back up and see what happens.

 

y0! Sell that ish and build a '77!

 

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shush.


anyway, the whole trailing arm is off.. i removed it from the compensator arm.. now it's just the compensator arm on it... there's no weight on the bolt..

and sadly, yes, it is the bolt/bushing mass that spins..

 

same thing happened to me. I spun the rubber in the arm. I cut it out with a sawsall, and ez-out the rest of the bolt, and put in new prothane bushings. When I put the new compensator arm bushings in, they were loose to the compensator arm. So I also had to tack weld them in so they didn't spin.

 

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Oh, dear. You are well and truly down in the deep end of the do-do pool. Let's see. As the bolt trys to screw itself out of the captured nut, it forces the rust-welded bushing against the back of the channel that retains the inner end of the compensator arm, bending it.

You may have to try cutting the bushing on both sides of the compensator arm, as close as possible to the arm. That way, you'll have a bit of bushing and bolt you can use to finish getting the bolt unscrewed from the captured nut.

Alternatively, do you really need to change that one particular bushing?

 

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you know.. that's what i was thinking... i might just say screw it.. but, now i've lost my rear lower bushings.. or they didn't come in the kit.. either way, i'm in another pickle.. these things are starting to taste sour...


btw, where the HECK have you been geezer?? jeese.. it's been like a year..