Was Seized bushing on A-Arm now more Horror

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

Excellent

On 11/7/06, Dan Bubb <jdbubb@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> The early Scirocco shop manual that I have has a procedure for doing this.
> Mostly it involves cutting the sheet metal BEHIND the captive nut,
> repairing the nut, then replacing the sheet metal and overlaying another
> sheet metal layer on top of it.
> I can scan the pages tonight and send them to you if you like.
> Dan
>
> From: "Don Walter" <dswalterwi@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:27 PM
> Subject: Was Seized bushing on A-Arm now more Horror
>
>
> > Well we finally got the A-Arm out by cutting the bolt.  Now the real
> horror
> > is that the thing the bolt screws into broke loose. so we can't get the
> > complete bolt out and even worse need to repair the thing that it
> actually
> > screws into.  This of couse is in the sealed part of the frame.  Options
> are
> > to cut.  I could cut the complete connection off vertically and weld the
> > "Nut" back onto the back of it.  Or we could just cut the bottom portion
> of
> > the frame open enough to access the "Nut" to weld back on then weld the
> > plate back to the bottom of it.  The second would be less distructive
> and
> > more reliable in the future.
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > --
> > Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
> > 1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
> > 1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
> > 1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
> > http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
> > 1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
> > 1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
> > 1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
> > 1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
> > 1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
> > 1969 Beetle (sold)
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>
>


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Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)