4banginRunner

Went to the EZpull the other day dead set on getting a set of 63" Chevy's. Well to my dismay...my buddies and I couldn't pull it off. We've pulled an 80 Toy cab and front rear with just hand tools and manpower before... but these Chevy springs man. I got the nuts off both ends, had a breaker bar on the bolt, spun it so it was somewhat freely spinning in the old decrepit bushing, and beat the snot out of it with no avail...even tried getting a hacksaw in there to cut the shackle off, but Chevy's have a weird set up and couldn't get a good angle on it.

Just hoping for some tips or advice on pulling 10+ year old rear springs at the junkyard with a big assortment of tools, and more muscle than brains.

Torches aren't allowed btw...and my battery powered sawzall is great for cutting PVC and furring strips....not 1/8" steel.

91Toyota

Only suggestion is a sawzall...that would be your best bet

Good luck!

4banginRunner

Just sucks I couldn't even budge the bolt to sneak a pickle fork in there . I should look into a better cordless sawzall...or even one of them newfangled cordless grinders.

bigt

they should torch them out for free!

4banginRunner

I've seen a guy that drives around the yard with torches, he's very hard to track down, the place is ginormous and I don't think its a free service. Plus I'd rather pull them myself, just something about it that gives me an even greater amount of pride in the work I put into my truck.......sadly I might give in and have to track this dude down to torch them off.

Windsor

Well, I'd tell my motorcycle buds to just kick it over onto the side and start wrenching, but in your case....

Adam F

Torch is about the only way.

Every junkyard Ive been to torches them off

mt_goat

Might try a CO2 tank + die grinder with cut-off wheels.

Swansen

Mt_goat has a good idea, other idea would be to get like a 5/10lb sledge and BEAT IT INTO SUBMISSION.

Adam F

You probably wont even get it off with a sledge hammer. I diddnt. The springs I got from the junyard were cut off at the shackle. I still needed to remove the bolt from the spring. I had a BIG sledge and beat on it for quite some time. I ended up having to heat it up with a torch and use a shop press to get the bolt out of the bushing.

If they have electric out there, a 120v grinder with a big 6" cut off disk will make short work of the bolts. Just cut off each end of the bolt and remove it from the shackle.

dbcx

Never had any that hard.
I assume you have it jacked up and all the weight off of it. Do you have the ubolts undone also?
If they are spinning they should come out. If has been there and really rusty you might just need a bigger hammer BFH. Like posted above the yard guy usually has a set of torches. I have taken some pretty nasty ones out but never had to torch em, if you got all the weight off it you are prolly just fighting rust.

cubuff4runner

63's are the one thing that I have learned not to get at a pull-n-save, most of them that I have come across are impossible without a torch. I ussually go to a yard that pulls the parts for them.

4banginRunner

All the Chevy's I tried were in the air with no rears, and I actually snapped the head off my good BFH beating the piss out of the bolts. Hopefully if this ice storm lets up, I'll be getting a set torched off this weekend.