I have a rear lower tie bar and all I need to do to install is remove the 2 lower control arm bolts that connect to the frame. But getting those bolts off isn't working. I'm using an air-impact at maximum psi and I still can't get the bolts loosen. I tried soaking it in WD-40 overnight and it didn't help either. Is the bolt seized? Thanks

 

those bolts are a bitch! keep going at it!

 

"Blast Away "
works great!

 

Try heating it up a bit

 

I used a torch to heat up the bolt and then used an air-impact. The bolt didn't budge. So I figured it was time to use the breaker bar. Well sure enough the head snapped off. Now what are my options?

 

I paid a shop $35 to help me install mines. I was going to do it myself after looking at the team integra instructions but luckily decided not too because the guy who installed it had to go through some agony.

 

My car is stuck at home, plus a shop would probably charge too much.

 

what happened is that in the middle of the bolts are falt, so after u take out a little bit of it, u have to hammer the middle part out and then screw the rest of the bots out.

 

Uh oh....I just bouht a bar and I hope and pray I don't break my bolts off cause I figured it would be a simple unbolt and bolt on install....any tips people?

 

I HATE LCA BOLTS

We snapped the head off one of mine and it still wouldn't budge at all. We torched it and it did nothing, I soaked it w/ PB Blaster for days, finally we knocked the whole bushing assembly out and the metal bushing would not pull from the bolt, we used a cutoff wheel to get it apart at the end. Try not to break anything, that bolt was $14 or so from Acura, boo

 

hm.. just put your shoulders into it. my girl helped me with my lower tie bar install & did one of the lca bolts herself with some rust eater spray and a socket wrench. they were a bitch, but we got em off after about 10 min on each. just keep trying

 

plan on replacing the bushings also, if thebolt is seized in the weld nut it is also most likely seized in the center ring of the bushing. MIght as well go urethane.

 

I wanted to change my springs and my dad said that the LCA bolt is frozen.....can this be? and how much trouble is it to resolve this?

 

lots of effort, try a breaker bar, impact gun. We used a punch and a 5lb sledge to finally drive it out.

 

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or use something called "anti-seize"

 

try a little bit of elbow grease.... worked for me after 3 days

 

how odd.. mine came off easy as hell.. getting em back on was a bitch tho

 

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same here

zer0

 

damn. I just got my lower tie bar today and was gonna install today as well but was worried about the same LCA bolts. What to do...what to do..

 

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Since when do you have to remove the LCA bolt to swap springs and shocks???


Part of the reason you snapped the head of the bolt off is because you heated the head of the bolt. You need to heat up the weld on nut in the back, this is where the threads are, and where the main sieze problem is. Under the head will only have minor surface rust and that will be taken care of by any good rust buster.

 

The LCA bolt runs thru the LCA bushing and thru the fork on the shock....

The welded nut on the fork was broken off, so it obviously wasn't that which was holding the bolt in.