i broke the head of the bolt that connects the trailing arm to the lca on the rear of my 97 coupe.

i'm heading out to home depot to buy a little dremel tool and some cutting disks. i can't think of any other way to do this cuz the nut is welded to the trailing arm(well, it might not be welded, but rather goes through the hole and folded over on the other side.)

suggestions?

Luke

 

ahh, the joys of civic/teg rear LCA's :happysad:

you've got the right idea... brute force is the only way to deal with it. Odds are, the bolt is siezed inside the bushing sleeve too, in which case you may need to burn out the bushing with a torch and use that as an excuse to upgrade to polyurethane h:

 

Agreed. Even if you get the nut off, it'll almost certainly be fused. I had the same situation, except on the strut bolt. Have fun with that, haha.


youre gonna end up either drilling it out, or burning out the bushing.

 

best place to buy new bushings then? just incase

 

Summit Racing has awesome customer service and pretty good pricing. I made my order on the phone and had the bushings on my door two days later. the rear control arm kit is something like $30, the master bushing kit is like $130.

 

the cutting wheel on the dremel is to small. like i have to have the dremel so close that the dremel tool hits part of the trailing arm. so the only way the cutting disc will be touching the nut is if its at an angle.

wtf!!

 

:wopics:

 

heres what i mean about the dremel:

 

I used a sawzall :dunno: you can't get any other angle at it?

 

i can go at it all angled funny and stuff but thats gonna make so much work and make the job so sloppy. i really wanted to just cut up at a nice 90 degree angle to the ground

edit: i didn't think i owned a sawzall but i guess its the same as a recipricating saw. i have one in the basement. lemme see what kind of work i can do with that