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Front LCA bolt, the bolt seems to have seized with the bushing, and as the bolt is fully unthreaded from the nut, the subframe has just bent forward. Any ideas on how to get this out?



Rear compensator arm bushing seized to bolt, I had to cut both sides with a sawzall to drop the traling arm assembly. Now I'm left with a bolt head and a bit of seized bushing on the compensator arm bracket. Any ideas on this one? (the bolt head slides in the oblong hole so its nearly impossible to saw the head off)

 

use an oxygen acetlyne torch, if not faster use dynamite

 

anything using conventional tools?

 

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dude where do you live? I'm glad there is no snow and salt down here. I would pry it out with screwdriver/or something like that. Use a hammer also. Good luck

 

The same exact thing happened to my 92' Ls in the rear. The rear right LCA (basically the same thing you are dealing with only in the rear) where the arm connects to the body. Me and my brother just were trying to install a rear lower tie bar, we put the left side bracket on, then went to the right side and snapped the head of the bolt off because it was seized in the bushing. I at least had the head of the bolt snapped off already, so all I had to do was grind the other end off and drop the arm. Then I just untreaded the piece that was left. After that I had to drill out the remains of the gulled bolt and I'd have to say my bushing is now ruined. I tried to get the part from the local honda and acura recycler and he said the one he had was gulled up too. Besides, I think I told him the wrong part (I think that they are called lower trailing arms). The most I can tell you to do is to either try to pry it out of the metal sleeve or keep trying to loosen it up and if it breaks off, at least it you could try to get it off to drill it.

 

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I wish I could say so. The same thing happened to my rear LCA's and I had to drill out the bolts (after I snapped them) then use a blowtorch to get the seized bushing out and replace it. It was a major PITA. Good luck!

 

sawzall

-ryan

 

Ya sawzall for the front will work.

However, you can't sawzall the rear because the bolt head is free to move, so the sawzall just vibrates that thing around in there like crazy, can't cut it....

 

once u get that **** out

anit-seize the **** out of everything

 

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However, you can't sawzall the rear because the bolt head is free to move, so the sawzall just vibrates that thing around in there like crazy, can't cut it....</TD></TR></TABLE>

wierd, cuz i used a circular grinder that i hooked up to my air compressor for the rears, and i assume a flat sawzall blade would keep it steadier... try applying more pressure..

-ryan