Scofco

NO THEY ARE NOT!
Arrrrrrr!
Seems everything I try to do lately is delayed because of rusty seized bolts and nuts. I swear I'm going to blow the runner up one day. Right now I am installing my OME front shocks, and the drivers side went off without a hitch, but the passenger side is being a little more difficult!

Figured I'd take a little break and get some food and surf the net before I take another crack at it. Man oh man.

AverysDad

throw some heat on those bad boys!!...................bet theyll come right off

Scofco

I don't have a propane torch.
Yet.
On the bright side, I finally got the front shocks in. My hand is only mildly bloody now.

Arnold

A long cheater pipe or breaker bar usually works for me.

Fink

Nothin beats a hefty breaker bar and good ole' fashion muscle

Fink

toy283

Have you ever noticed that no matter what you do, it is always the last ones that are the hassle? It's like it knows that once you get that far you're committed to completing the job. It's gotta be a corollary to Murphy's Law.

4runrun

Usually blood makes it all good. Its always about 5 minutes after cracking a nuckle you finally get whatever...... off. Thats Murphy's other law.

2001Millrunner

try to heat or pound on it or do both?

bulldog-yota

Spraying on penetration oil(WD40 or whatever) the night before no good??

midiwall

That sounds familiar... This is what I had to do to get mine off:

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It'll help a lot... If you remember to do it...

DavidA

What kinda shocks you running in that pic? Very nice!

midiwall

Me? (thanks!) Those are SAWs with 650lb springs on 'em. They did a _lot_ to help out my ride.

Tahoe666

The same thing happened to me on the passenger side when I changed my shocks. The nut came off but the bolt was seized in the shock mount. I beat on it for a while to no avail. I decided to cut the whole mounting bracket off with a torch and make a new one. It worked. Yesterday I upgraded my steering stabilizer and of course, the bolt is seized in the mount. This time the stabilizer got taken off with a sawzall and the bolt got melted out with the torch. What a pain in the a$$!

shazaam

Man every time I start a project on my own. I curse everyone here at yotatech left and right. "3 hours for a BL" 3 hours my ass!!! "easiest mod in the world". Easy for who?!?!!? or may favorite "Its a simple bolt-on operation" ..... Bolting on is easy, its getting the bolt off that kills me. What everyone here says is a couple of hours ends up taking me 3 days. granted I only work on it for a few hours at night .. but still .. its more then 3 hours.

But I still love ya guys.

toy283

If you live in the rust belt, you should automatically, double, triple or more the amount of time those of us in no-rust country say

midiwall

True... My truck spent the first 5 years of it's life in the Chicago area chugging through the snow & salt in the winter and the heat that can be produced in the summer.

I've got a LOT of frozen bolts under there....

WATRD

Don't think of them as frozen, just "chemically welded". That way they don't come loose when you don't want them to It's a minor side-effect of having that security that they won't come loose when you want them to either...

4x4taco

PB blaster! go to advance and pick up a bottle. whenever you are going to be doing mods to your rig, drench the bolts/nuts that are going to come off a couple days before and it should loosen them a lot, if you still have problem, i've found that a 1/2" drive breaker bar works wonders

r0cky

USE CRAFTSMAN'S BOLT-OUT ... that little kit works magic!

dave89144

Yes they are awesome, almost makes me wanna go find seized, stripped, rusted, etc, bolts just to use them....
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/searc...=searchresults