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Removing rear lower control arm


fuzzymoomoo

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Is there a trick that I'm missing? I can't get the rear bolt (the one that attatches to the subframe) out. I soaked the crap out of it with PB blaster, I beat the holy hell out of it with a hammer and it won't budge. The other 2 lateral links came out with little issue, save for one seized bolt that came out with a a very liberal use of the hammer.

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Lololol I shouldn't have attempted this

 

Still can't get that one bolt to budge, gonna have to cut it

 

The other side is even worse. All 3 bolts to the trailing arm seized in their bushings, one (the rear control arm of course....) snapped and the other 2 broke the welds of their respective nuts. Can't get them out with a hammer

 

Lord jeebus help me

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And it gets worse

 

I tapped out and took it to a shop after one of the swing arm bolts to the trailing arm broke

 

It took them a week to get the left side off

 

And in doing so they found a hole corroded through the subframe. Needless to say I'm getting a new subframe out of the deal too...

 

Good thing for me that Ford was profitable last year

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