Its always fun when you get a project car and you start taking it apart and you get too the rear axle.... everything goes midly ok then you go to take off the lcas and omg there rusted tight pound on em all day take a braker bar too them and they just say screw you buddy im not gonna move well of course my awnser too that is my lil buddy Mr. Grinder =] so i get the head of the bolt grinded off and i go too force it threw still nothing... =[ so i grind of the nut thinking here we go.... but of course that wouldnt be it the bolt is frozen in place in the metal busing inside the lca!!! arghhh so i have too cut threw the lca too finally get it out.... and you know wut... i had too do this on all 4 bolts =[ lmao i hate rusted stuff welp car wont have any rust once im done lol. This post was basically just me ranting as im sitting down in my garage right now currently working on the car with my laptop i swear bolts need a fail safe where u push a button and they blow up LMAO.

 

yeah are a bitch sometimes!

try doing anything like that at a junkyard to get a rear end or something, they are usually real rusty.

so far I havent had any real bad ones, just a big hammer and a long punch gets them out.

soak them in wd-40 and pb blaster also.

 

lol yes they can be and i would hate too try and get a rear end out on a junkyard lol that would blow. ya i had them all soaked in pb blaster dint help too much lol i had the punch and hammer and i was beating the living hell out of it that dint do much either lmao. At the shop we have a plasma cutter that would of made it a lil easier lol =]

 

Use a bigger hammer........ It's a lot less work.

I've taken several out of the bone yard this way.

 

at a junkyard i use a battery powered sawzall and just cut the LCAs and panhard bar/torque arm and brake lines and I'm on my way. Takes 5 minutes tops to cut through everything and then can finish it at home.

 

lol i did the big hammer thing already (dint work) :P getting it out of the car wasnt too horribly bad its out right now. it was getting the lcas off after that that was a b**** lol ya i wish i had a sawzall i love those things lmao.

 

I PB blastered the rear I got at a JY a week before I took it out. The JYs around hear won't let you take in power tools.

 

Why wont they let you take in power tools?

Anyway, PB blaster and lots of heat. You already had to destroy the bushing, so heat should be too much of a problem. If you localize it on the bolt, it wont hurt the rest of the car. Then, take a nice impact wrench to it if you have one. Also, maybe extend your breaker bar by a bit. Before I bought my impact wrench, I used a 4ft tube slipped over my ratchet as a breaker bar. 90% of the time it worked, 10% it stripped the absolute crap out of the bolt head which resulted in new swear words being created lol.

I feel your pain though. At least you know that when you reassemble it, you wont have a problem with them again (I'm assuming you'll use glavanized bolts to minimize corrosion).

 

Ya there already off the axle. I had a propane torch but no propane in it lol =] And i have about a 3ft long breaker bar... and i snapped a kobalt socket wrench in half.... wich ive never in my life broken a kobalt tool before at least i get a new one for free. Ya i got a impact wrench dint help. Its all said and done now thou over all it wasnt too bad ive seen worse trying too get bumpers off a rusted chevelle.. i just hope i dont run into this on the front suspension when that comes out lol. Ya ill be usuing glavanized bolts all new suspension parts and hardware for this car dont plan on putting any of the old stuff back.

Krisb sucks they wont let you bring powertools into the jy ppl at the junkyard see me so often they let me drive my jeep back there with anything i need lol.

 

I think you'll have better luck with the front suspension. On my formula, the grease/dirt build up kept the water away from a lot of bolts haha. Good luck to ya though.

 

ya the front is a lil greasy the engine has a leaking rear main seal those v6's seem too love too do that so thatll be fixed and cleaned up before the new stuff goes on up front should of kept the rust down a lil lol. then once the fronts done bout another 2 months of money saving and ls1 here i come lol.