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Hello everyone been a while since ive posted but i know that you are all willing to help when i have a problem :) Removing the rear shock on my car, the bolt had seized in the bottom of the shock, i think its sort of welded itself to the rubber bush :-0 EVEN TRIED A SLEDGEHAMMER lol no luck, any ideas?
Windy gun? Shouldn't be touching the rubber as there's a metal insert in the rubber.
Oil it, work it lose.
i used sh*t loads of wd40, impact gun, rather large tapping stick, huge breaker bar (just feels like its spinning the rubber bush) i was trying for about an hour,
Has the nut broke off and just spinning behind the rear drum
the nut came off find its just the bolt itself thats stuck. Its on my volvo s40 not a nova, and its where the the shock mounts into the rear suspension arm
its time to get the grinder out.. or drill the bolt out
Get some heat on the job, blow torch or oxy acetalyne :)
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Originally Posted by NovaBoi92
lol I had this i tried everything, left oil on it for a few days, took a blow torch to it, a breaker bar, nothing worked
In the end i took the hub and suspension to a friend at his MOT station, he said the best thing to use is a long breaker bar and a decent socket as the cheap ones will round the edges, we did that and it started moving (with a snap on socket and a 1 metre breaker bar) it wasn't easy, we had it in a vice and i was literally hanging off the breaker bar, then when it started moving we took an impact gun onto it and just kept the button pressed while tapping the otherside with a hammer, it came out eventually.
I asked him why not just take an impact gun to it and he said theres a hell of alot more torque in using a breakerbar
So i'd suggest using your "tapping stick" in conjuction with your impact gun and it should come out assuming the bush hasn't seperated
Thanks for the suggestions ill give it a go :)