I've been working on my rear suspension this weekend and it has sucked. I thought it would be an easy fix knowing that the two springs were changed easily. But, both of my rear LCA strut bolts broke. So now my next plan is to rent a reciprocating saw so I could cut off the nut end of the rear struts. I will then try to hammer out the broken screw thats stuck inside the bushing....

So my question is, has anyone out there ever done this and what kind of problems did you have/not have????

 

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If you removed the lca/strut as one piece could you cut between the strut and lca? Your struts will be useless if you cut the nut off. If you got new struts just cut the end off like you planned. Good luck

 

i had to cut the bolts too, they were seized

 

try drilling it out.

 

cut the nut out and put a new nut
its only a nut

 

you have to take it somewhere and get them pressed out. this has happened to me quite a few times ( used to work at a performance shop) so take off the whole LCA etc, and cut the bolt/ then get it pressed out/.

 

had same problem, cut the bolt and couldn't get them out.. what i did was ordered a set of aluminum rear controll arms off of e-bay for like $100. they look great and solved my problem of not being able to get the bolts out.

 

DAMN that sucks....
I had an 89 civic and a 93 integra and this never happened. Well on the teg one LCA bolt broke but I my bro was able to hammer the bi*** out. This simple spring change has been a crazy project. I worked on it all day yesterday and all day today and still need to press out the bushings and put in new ones. I also have to find a way to take off the end of that bolt that holds the brake assembly onto the LCA cause on one side that thing broke too!!! What a pain in the *** man!!!

All I need to do now though is change those bushings(two on one of the LCA's), press in new ones and get the rest of that bolt off, then put evrything back in place....I can't wait.

Total money spent= $20 for sawzaw rental, $25 on blades, $54 on three Honda bushings, $3 on grade 8 strut(non-Honda) bolts, nuts and washers(spent too much money, gotta save), $3 on antiseize, $10 on extra Honda bolt for the lca that I still need to take out, still need to pay machine shop for the bushing removal/placing, and i don't know how much a little portable torch will be to heat the rest of that bolt I have to remove...