On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > Those things sure get rusted together all right. ...... > it didn't matter what I did to the really rusted left side - those three > bolts with nuts on the bottom were totally seized in place. > No amount of oxygen-acetylene torch heating helped........I put on gallons > of really good penetrating oil.... > there was no way all three of those bolts would come out of there. > Even with a nut off........hammering with a punch wouldn't drive out the > bolt, just super stuck. I know exactly what you mean Scott. With the s**t storm I created, I tried a makeshift press using my vice + old socket + 13mm bolt, to press out the bolt remanents from the lower BJ adaptors. This resulted (said 13mm bolt): http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/FuckingBentBolt.jpg To my credit, I did manage to get one bolt remenant out with this technique. (and heat, BFH, broken punch etc.) A word to the wise. When removing the radius arm, clean the threads on the 3 bolt ends, apply penetrating oil, turn each nut a LITTLE at a time working your way around from one to the other. These nuts are metal self locking. IMO, this, combined with dirt/corrosion, will create trouble if one tries to "zip" them off too fast. Neil.
Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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