Most likely you will have to cut the blots just inside the mounting plates. Not a job for the faint of heart. Choices are torch and watch that rubber burn or careful execution with the Sawzall. You will need to cut the bolt and barrel on at least the bolt head side. Personally unless the alignment is so far off that you can really feel or you shave off tires in 10,000 miles I would leave things alone until the rear trailing arms need to be removed for some other reason. After all, it has been as it is since day one. Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Geo & Kathleen Hahn Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:11 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Adjusting Rear Camber Bingo -- this (rusted in place) is just what I ran into. Lots of days of PBlaster, impact wrench, long breaker bar, etc failed to move the bolt. Going on a long trip in a week so I really can't risk breaking or melting something right now -- will wait until I return to invoke some nuclear option. Geo H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Haynes" <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM> This is easy as long as the bolts are not rusted to the barrels in the rubber mounts.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Geo & Kathleen Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com> wrote: > Thanks to Scott, Don & Roger for all the advice and that excellent link. |
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