Re: stuck rear suspension bolt

[Mark Mages <wasserbox@yahoo.com>]

I may be off base, but how about some good penetrating
oil and a hammer?  There are no threads in the shock
base so this should work.....  just dont bend the rear
control arm.  Sounds like more fun than blowtorching..
well, actually now that I thing about it blowtorching
does sound like fun.

--- Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net> wrote:
> >Hi all -- I was going to replace my suspension
> today, but I ran into a
> >problem when trying to remove the right-rear shock
> (luckily this is where
> >I started). The bolt which secures it at the bottom
> is very stuck (the nut
> >comes off fine). We tried everything we could think
> of (including lowering
> >the weight of the car onto a wrench) but to no
> avail. It appears that it
> >is frozen in the metal sleeve which the bolt runs
> through. The bolt
> >appears to turn, but will immediately turn back
> once the torque is
> >released; I assume this is because the metal sleeve
> is fixed to the rubber
> >which surrounds it.
> >
> >Anyway, does anyone have any bright ideas? Some
> possibilities: drill off
> >the bolt head, and try to pull it out from the
> other end (perhaps using
> >the nut to pull it out by tightening it); press the
> bolt out (I don't
> >believe it's threaded into anything beside the nut,
> but I could be wrong);
> >impact wrench. Heat wouldn't really be appropriate
> given the rubber.
> >Anything else?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Oliver
> 
> Don't be so sure about the impact wrench or heat! ;)
>  I've been in
> your shoes before, and I've done each one:  Burned
> it out, cut the
> ends off, then drilled it out to make the bottom
> thin enough to
> lift out, and finally, impact gun.  If you heat it a
> bit, then hit
> the crap out the 'nut' end, it should come out...see
> if you can
> combine the smacking the crap out it (technical
> term) with someone
> vibrating the shit (another term) out of the other
> end with an
> impact gun.  If this fails, it's probably
> cut-n-drill (last term, I
> promise) time.
> 
> Oh, you've exactly identified the problem, the bolt
> is rusted to
> the sleeve, which is bonded to the rubber, which is
> bonded to the
> shock body which is connected to the leg bone. 
> Yeah, it does suck.
> 
> later.
> 
> ==Brett
> 
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> 
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=====
Mark

87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v

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