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Removing stubborn bolts

Postby tangcla » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:34 am

My coilovers arrived on Friday :D but one of the bolts that holds the hub to the shock tower is seized because the mob that fitted my springs didn't use a washer :(

Any ideas how to get it off?
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Postby BUDDAH » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:59 am

Bugger

You could try heat or if you can get a hand drill near the nut drill a or several holes in the nut to relive the tension in the nut
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Postby moggy » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:01 am

Spray it well with a penetrating oil like WD40, leave for a few minutes, tap it sharply a couple of times with a hammer then try removing it again. Depending how tightly it's seized you might have to do this procedure several times. :wink:

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Postby tangcla » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:24 am

moggy wrote:Spray it well with a penetrating oil like WD40, leave for a few minutes, tap it sharply a couple of times with a hammer then try removing it again. Depending how tightly it's seized you might have to do this procedure several times. :wink:

Spent yesterday afternoon and a quarter can of WD-40 trying that :lol:

Going to take it back to the workshop that fitted my coilovers, to get them to look at it for me.
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Postby onnzo » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:12 pm

A long extension bar - leverage is your friend...
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Postby tangcla » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:26 pm

I tried with a rattle gun already... no avail.
My 15 inches of manlihood was also, apparently, not up to the task... :P

Going back to the workshop that fitted these... make them undo it :D
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Postby Mano™ » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:45 pm

Get the chisel and hammer onto it.. or grind it off :) makita style haha..

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Postby Ric » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:24 pm

It's not a left hand thread is it? ;)
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Postby adam » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:38 pm

Ric wrote:It's not a left hand thread is it? ;)


if it was me, and it was.....
i'm not sure i'd be lettin' you jokers know?

btw mate, if this is the case, EVERYBODY has a story like it :lol: !
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