So Im swapping the suspension on my Crx today. Finished the front no problem, all bolts came lose, everyone told me the rears would be ***. I got the drivers side off in about 5 minutes of kicking the ratchet.

Went over to the passenger side, no budging. 1hour of straight muscle, kicking and pure soakage with WD40

I can not think of a way to get some leverage on the bolts. Its on the LCA so you cant use a breaker bar beacuse the breaks are in the way and angles the bar right on the ground.

I left it in the air tonight and cut of a stirofoam cup and tapped it up on the LCA to totally submerge it for the night, hopefully itll be good tomorrow, now even a budge form it.

Give me some ideas, thanks

 

lol i know how much that sucks. can u get the nuts off. if so beat the **** out of the bolts with a mallet. if not use a angle grinder and cut them inbetween the shock mount and wiggle it out.
-joe

 

I shot those bolts with pb blaster for about a week before trying to loosen them. They cracked open easily afterwards.

PB Blaster

 

if the bolt is seized in the metal sleve in the bushing then you are pretty much screwed. you will have to cut the shock feet off and remove the entire rear LCA from the car so you can work with it and cut everything off the LCA. this happened to me. prepare to replace that bolt, that shock and that bushing. if its seized in there (which is probably due to rust) then forget about banging it out. even when i had the nut off the other end i couldnt bang it through. and even when i ripped the bushing out, i couldnt bang the bolt out of the sleeve, and thats with the part OFF THE CAR!

hopefully its just being a pain in the *** and just needs to be broken loose. good luck.

 

Yeah really if that **** ain't moving good luck. I've PB blasted, heated, ratched, air tools, straight muscle, EVERYTHING ended up trying to drill it out and twist here and there NO LUCK, I finally hacked it all off and I the bolt was completly seized in there. This was on a 98 Civic rear lca driver side. But good luck. Best bet either get a new bushing or a new lca.

 

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-joe
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I dont get it

I personally just soaked em with wd40 after the first try, came back with a mallet and a socket, 5 minutes maybe and it popped. Not much work area under there though