beakie
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I was in the process of installing my new steering stibilizer yesterday and ran into the old one being as stuck as stuck can be in the original position. I understand its pressed into place and is tapered so its a tight squeeze, but I mean I can not get this thing out.
This may have been one bad idea after another, but we started by heating the bar its in, which takes a lot as it dissapates so quickly... tried hammering it out, to no avail.
Next we thought maybe its screwed in (there is the 3/4" nut below the actual stabilizer, above the bar) so we torque on that... again nothing.
So we cut the bottom of the bolt off flush, and tried drilling out the bolt... until the bit got stuck and broke off inside (hind sight, more lubricant was needed I guess)... nothing.
Finally we tried heating it again, never got red hot just real hot, tried unscrewing it with vice grips just to get some movement (it was drilled about 60% through to the top of the bar)... you guessed it nothing.
So now what? My last resort is to take it into a shop tomorrow and have them do whatever they can to be rid of this devil bolt. Would rather save the money (not to mention the embarrasment of such a hack job to my name) by doing it myself tho... any ideas?
This may have been one bad idea after another, but we started by heating the bar its in, which takes a lot as it dissapates so quickly... tried hammering it out, to no avail.
Next we thought maybe its screwed in (there is the 3/4" nut below the actual stabilizer, above the bar) so we torque on that... again nothing.
So we cut the bottom of the bolt off flush, and tried drilling out the bolt... until the bit got stuck and broke off inside (hind sight, more lubricant was needed I guess)... nothing.
Finally we tried heating it again, never got red hot just real hot, tried unscrewing it with vice grips just to get some movement (it was drilled about 60% through to the top of the bar)... you guessed it nothing.
So now what? My last resort is to take it into a shop tomorrow and have them do whatever they can to be rid of this devil bolt. Would rather save the money (not to mention the embarrasment of such a hack job to my name) by doing it myself tho... any ideas?