suspension difficulties semi rant

[rick@brubakerbox.com (Rick Alexander)]

Then... Nah just that when you had it cherry red you should have raised a
big bucket of water up under it. The shock would have broken the hold of the
rust. Then Buster would have had an easy time of it.

Btw you can even take old exhausts and inner race/hubs apart with this
method.

Rick Alexander
http://www.brubakerbox.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: suspension difficulties semi rant


> If the head is busted off it should pound out!!  Soak it overnight and set
> the car up high and safe and get your biggest hammer and slam that thing
> out!!  It really should go since the only thing that could hold it in is
> rust so once you break the rust it WILL come out (unless someone threaded
in
> the wrong size bolt or something stupid like that!!).  HTH!!
>
> Dave
>
> alright, i got my new skocks and struts and went to put them on tonight.
> just cruising along, when i hit the rear pass side shock. the god-damned
> bottom bolt is frozen. so i break out buster( that's the name of my BIG
> hammer), give it a few whacks and the nut breaks loose. cool, but the bolt
> is still frozen! sprayed it with pb blaster, ate dinner and came back.
still
> frozen. break out the torch heat it up. nothing, fuc*in thing still won't
> move! super heat it, so much so that it's glowing red and the rubber
bushing
> on the bottom of the shock it burning. still nothing. so i rig myself into
> position under the car and pull for all i'm worth and snap! the head comes
> of the bolt. excellent, now i can just pound the lil' mf'er out with a
> hammer. nope. still stuck. i'm so pissed of at this point i'm actually
think
> of changing the whole rear trailing arm. any suggestions?
>   hit
>
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