01-22-2014, 11:06 PM
(01-22-2014, 10:28 PM)GFXjamie Wrote: So a bit of a half @$$ update here guys. Got the rear end in the air and started attempting to remove bolts. I had a feeling the rear end would require a lot of heat, swearing, sparks, cutting and grinding. Well I got the inner bolt out of the toe arm without trouble, outer bolt had to grind it off and pull arm. I have the camber arm bolt mostly out but the bushing sleeve is stopping it from going anywhere else. Time to cut or grind that one as well but it is free of the nut fortunately. I have the head off lower control arm bolt ground down to as it would not turn either. Lots of fun, lots of melted bushings this week and sparks. Hope to have passenger side completely apart and driver side well on it's way tonight.
Gotta go to ct and get another cut off wheel since mine ran short on me and a few more sawzall blades hopefully ease the pain a bit and expedite things.
I now realize why I was getting a "popping" noise out back which was likely due to all the seized bushings and nothing else. I'll snap a pic of what's left of the toe arm bolt with the bushing sleeve fused to it
mines in the exact same shape. totally rotted right out my sway bar doesn't even move its fused in one place lol.. I got a new rear subframe so im just gonna cut mine totally our and swap in the new one.. after upgrading it to poly bushings and massive parts of coarse
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