wow i wish i read this earlier... i just put everything up and called it a night. thanx for the info man!

 

Sorry I'm a little late for this but you need an impact gun to take that bolt out! It's probably rusted in there and if you put a lot of torque at one time on the head of the bolt, it's going to snap off! Then you'll need a new control arm and most likely a new shock!

 

It is a typical problem with those bolts getting "welded" to the sleeve for the bushing. They rust so bad that they will get permanently stuck together. I have ran into them where they wont even come out and we had to actually cut the bolt to remove it and buy a new lower control arm.

 

I'm assuming you tried a good penitration oil? Did you try heat? That happens all the time with our offroading trucks.

If anything use a good impact, might start movin

or how about you put the nut on half way and hit the fuck out of it with a big fucking hammer while your partner has a impact wrench on the other side, with the bolt smothered and covered in penitrating oil??

 

it was soaked in PB blaster, i'm borrowing an impact from the shop this weekend to take it off.

 

The nut is welded to the other side of the shock... Stick to your off-roading trucks...

O.P. Use a good/ powerful impact gun and you should be set...

 

The BOLT is not welded in there, the BOLT is seized in there, never said anything about a nut, and if you look at the picture its clearly a bolt.... Stick to learning how to read.


If there is a nut on the other size, and its already off, you can place the nut back on there almost all the way and start hitting it with a hammer, it will fuck up the nut, but it wont damage the bolt... or atleast it wont mushroom out the bolt. Doing that, while having a friend on the other end with a impact might break it free.

 

Yea it isn't "welded" in there lol...I said welded because the two pieces of metal rust so badly that they fuse themselves together...Brandon is correct.

 

i attempted it tonight with the help of a friend and still nothing, we got it too move but then it broke the socket...

i also tried my cheating method of just removing the spring and that failed too. the dust cover refused to come off and that kept the spring on as well. i just said fuck it and put it all back together.

 

Please tell me you used an impact socket??? lol