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epowell Samba Member
Joined: September 23, 2015 Posts: 4733 Location: Czech (mostly) Vancouver (sometimes)
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:21 pm Post subject: Nice little trick for removing bolts rusted to bushing sleeves |
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I could not get the rear shock lower bolt out - frozen bolt to sleeve syndrome.
Spent an hour on YT last night watched at least 6 vids and every single vid said you gotta cut her off with a sawzall.
Today I decided just to soak it in weasel piss for a week then try again with the sledge hammer..... but my neighbor who is a great mechanic passed by and I asked his opinion about it - he gave me a few very valuable tricks, which worked.
First off he pointed out to me that often these metal sleeves are made from a flat piece of metal rolled into a tube - so if it is this type of sleeve you are in luck... you can locate that place where the metal joins and hammer it open with a flathead screw driver.
Then.... you don't want to torch too much on rubber because it is very very toxic, but burning it out a little bit will both help shock the rust as well as get rid of a bit of the rubber to that when you hammer open the sleeve again the metal will have more space to expand into.
So after a bit of torching, I rotated the crack in the sleeve to 12 oclock and sprayed some penetrating oil on it so gravity would let the oil seep into the crack....
Next I used a drift on the end of the bolt and out it came!
Then put on the shock.
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vanis13 Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2010 Posts: 3099 Location: ABQ NM USA.... Except when not
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:39 am Post subject: Re: Nice little trick for removing bolts rusted to bushing sleeves |
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epowell wrote: |
Then put on the shock.
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love the eastern European jack stand _________________ 83.5 Westy with Subaru 2.5, 4 spd manual, center seat, COLD A/C on 134a!, Winter camp heated with an Espar B4 gasoline furnace
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VicVan Samba Member
Joined: July 01, 2015 Posts: 1845 Location: Vancouver Island, BC
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:24 am Post subject: Re: Nice little trick for removing bolts rusted to bushing sleeves |
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Thanks for the tip! Great pics too. _________________ '90 Little Blue Truck, 2WD auto, FAS GenV 2.0 NA (AVH) |
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Schnippzle Samba Member
Joined: February 04, 2021 Posts: 288 Location: Swede in London, UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:24 am Post subject: Re: Nice little trick for removing bolts rusted to bushing sleeves |
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vanis13 wrote: |
epowell wrote: |
Then put on the shock.
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love the eastern European jack stand |
Probably more rigid & robust than some T25's I see on the road. |
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