Re: stuck rear suspension bolt

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

Sorry for the blank post...

>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


I've done it by angle grinding the base of the shock at the point where it 
sticks out of the bottom of the axle housing. This allows you to drop the 
axle off the old shock. If you then cut away the rubber left on the sleeve 
you can cut the bolt/sleeve at the head end.  This way you don't get quite 
so much burning rubber as torching it, which I've also done in the past.



Ewan Hopkins...

'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8

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