Re: stuck rear suspension bolt

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

>From: Oliver Seiler <oseiler@acm.org>
>To: Scirocco Mailing List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: stuck rear suspension bolt
>Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:49:08 -0800 (PST)
>
>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
>
>Oliver Seiler -- Software Developer, Pivotal Software, 
>http://www.pivotal.com
>     Scirocco MkII Diary - http://erisian.com/~oseiler/scirocco/index.html
>
>
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