Need help with lower control arm removal!!!

jvog · 03-17-2009, 07:21 PM

So I went to take my rear LCA off to put in my new ones along with my coil overs,and I can't get the bolt out that holds it on at the axle. I got the nut off after it put up a good fight, but I can't get the bolt out. I tried hammering it and it didn't budge at all. I really need help with this one.

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97modifiedmustangGT · 03-17-2009, 07:31 PM

do you have a jack under the control arm? that bolt isn't going anywhere with all that spring pressure on it.

jvog · 03-17-2009, 07:33 PM

Oh, I forgot to mention that I took the spring out

97modifiedmustangGT · 03-17-2009, 07:44 PM

well than that is very weird. Have you soaked it in PB blaster? it should just pound right out. my car had 100,000 miles on it before that bolt ever came out and all i had to do was hit the bolt a couple times with a hammer. didn't even use pb blaster.

only other thing is maybe you have a severely messed up bushing.

jvog · 03-17-2009, 07:45 PM

I can turn the bolt with a ratchet so its loose side to side, it just doesnt want to come out

jrherald420 · 03-17-2009, 09:08 PM

use a center punch and hammer it out. mine was stuck like that also, i just soaked it with PB and tapped it out with a center punch. when you re-install them take a jack and place it under the diff buy the driveshaft and raise or lower it to get the bolt lined back up with the hole.

jvog · 03-17-2009, 09:16 PM

Are you sure you are talkin about the on on the axle? There isnt any room to get a punch in there. Im trying to use the side of a hammer lol. The hub assembly is in the way

jrherald420 · 03-17-2009, 09:23 PM

when i did mine the nuts were facing in toward the diff. not out facing the brakes.

jvog · 03-17-2009, 09:32 PM

grrrreat mine has to be different. The bolt head of mine is on the inside and the nut was on the outside towards the brakes...any ideas

jrherald420 · 03-17-2009, 09:35 PM

i think yours is the way it came from the factory. im pretty sure that the guy that owned my car before me just installed them backwards after he removed the ones he installed.