I can't seem to remove the lower bolt on my rear suspension its a 14mm bolt with the nut welded on the other side. Will heating it up work? its impossible to get off. I have used breaker bars and the socket keeps slippings off and when it grabs the whole car moves with it. help what can I do? What size bolt is it too. Will heating it with a torch work?

 

What happend is the bolt rusted inside the lower conrol arm bushing. if you heat it youll destroy the bushing cause its made outa rubber, but most of the time you have to just to get the bolt out. go and buy a new LCA bushing from honda they are cheap, and just torch that bad boy outa there. good luck

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fulldragcrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> go and buy a new LCA bushing. good luck</TD></TR></TABLE>

Haha, screw that, go buy new LCA's. Much easier.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BeerMan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Haha, screw that, go buy new LCA's. Much easier.</TD></TR></TABLE> thats what i did. snapped bolts on both sides, got new lca's and now im ready for a rear swaybar. before you snap it, yes heat it and burn off the bushing. you might smell the bushing as it heats up.

 

yeah. the infamous lca bolts.....
Had to cut the shock on mine..

 

Just to not leave everyone hanging I went to home depot and bought these sockets that have some sort of blade type things in them and as you turn, it will dig into the bolt and grip very well. It worked on both bolts. thanks for the help. The guy at home depot told me that heating the metal would just make it expand. Is he a moron?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ek00fbp &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Just to not leave everyone hanging I went to home depot and bought these sockets that have some sort of blade type things in them and as you turn, it will dig into the bolt and grip very well. It worked on both bolts. thanks for the help. The guy at home depot told me that heating the metal would just make it expand. Is he a moron?</TD></TR></TABLE>

It will expand, but it will also make it break lose from the bushing

 

i cut just the bolt on mine got it outta my car and put it in the drill press FUN FUN FUN

 

happened to me when i was doing my friend's car

i used some cheap tools , and my 14" socket just cracked

so we went to buy some CRC and 14" SNAP-ON socket , sprayed the bolt . left it a couple of minutes , and i used a power bar to open it , it was still pretty hard , but yeah it finally came off