I am starting to get majorly pissed off...I broke yet another bolt on my suspension. I am beginning to hate working on my car. I'm so frustrated that I just want to give up. However, I can't because I need a car by wednesday. ****!!!!

Sorry, just had to vent.

 

What suspension bolts are you breaking and what are you doing to break them??

 

Oh, a couple bolts on the rear LCA I believe. I have sprayed them with penetrant stuff and waited for a while, then I used my breaker bar, then I used my air tools, then my breaker bar again...the breaker bar effectively BROKE them. It sucks.

 

i feel for ya. i hate drilling out those lca bolts

 

Good idea Teken.

PhatGSR...I know how you feel man. When I took off my exhaust I had my feet against the car and broke every damn thing off. I also dragged my fists across the brake shields and nearly cut them off (my hands). I hate rust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just spray a ton of PB on it, and use the bar. Go slowly

And bring lots of food and beverages


[Modified by Tweakmeister, 11:09 PM 12/30/2001]

 

Hey man I'm feeling ya.

I did my suspension recently and I ended up buying all of the back suspension parts brand new because of all the bolts breaking like Ice. Also a couple of my drill extracters broke inside the holes of the bolts i was trying to extract. Ahhhh that was a bitch but oh well i got it done I'm actually really happy that I replaced all the arms now.

A peace of advice from me is anytime your doing the rear suspension on a honda or acura that is 4 years or older I would do this:

Before you even think about taking anything off I would spray PB, WD40 or any other bolt penatrant of your choice on everybolt you plan on taking off, for about 2 weeks everyday. I strongly recomend you using air tools or actually an impact gun because the gun is pritty stong on unbolting bolts and it has the hammering feature that moves and kicks the bolt around to get it to loosen up.
With Brakerbars just build up lots of torque that will eventually cause you to snap the head off on those weak bolts.
Even all of that you still might have a bolt or two brake on you, and thats just how it is.

Also before you plan on taking the rear struts out I would buy some rear lower controll arm busings in case that bolt does decide to brake .

Just trying to help out....

 

Anti sieze compound on the new stuff. Coat them throughly!


[Modified by B18C-EJ1, 7:55 PM 12/30/2001]

 

Please tell me where you got SS hardware that is harder than 8.8? Most available non-aerospace SS is only 5.9 and brittle. Very bad idea for suspension fasteners.

The issue with the LCA bolts getting stuck is not the LCA bolts themselves but the metal sleaves that are inside the vulcanized rubber bushings get rusted. They are nothing more than cast metal tubes. The LCA bolts are zinc coated, which is a VERY resistant coating.

I would STRONGLY recomend that unless you have some VERY special SS fasteners (I am talking over $80 each bolt) that you return to the factory bolts and apply some aluminized anti-sieze.




[Modified by matthewk, 4:24 AM 12/31/2001]

 

I wasn't trying to offend you, I was just offering some friendly concern to keep you safe. There are not alot of people that understand the dynamics of SS, I am glad that you do and I am sorry for waisting the space to needlessly warn you.

 

I realy want to find some ss hardware. anybody know where to look? every boly on my car is a total war.