One of the eccentric bolts that goes through the lower a-frame is stuck on my truck. I got the other three out no problem, but one just will not come out. Anyone know of any tricks to get it out. The bolt is seized to the sleeve in the bushing and won't let go. Any help, opinions, experience, and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

From my experience when a bolt gets seized in a bushing a sawzall is about the only answer.

 

I had one of the back bolts stuck in my a-arm. I used a hydraulic jack braced against the transmision cross member to push it out. I had to put a clamp around the a-arm near the bolt to keep the a-arm from spreading. I had to use a lot of force, it actually dented my cross member.

 

Marc, thats a good idea! Jeff, the sawzall just had new blades for it waiting, as a last resort. I'll keep trying, but if anyone else has any ideas, all are appreciated.

 

Marc, what type of jack did you use, bottle or floor jack?

 

I actually used a hydraulic ram that came with my frame repair kit, but a bottle jack used horizontaly would work just as well.

 

had to cut mine out with a sawz all. Was not fun took a bunk of blades to, the bolts just stripped em. Then getting the bushing out is also a bit of a task, but not not as bad as pressing in the new bushing (if you dont have a press) in. Good luck!

 

i had the front end aligned last week, the guy told me the adjusters were seized on both sides. he said there are two ways to get them out, cutting is one and heating them up red hot and pounding them out is the other. im planning on some suspension mods next year so ill probably heat them up and take out some frustrations! where do i send my 0.02$?!

lee

 

well heat and a bottle jack didn't work. so after two packages of sawzall blades I have one end of it cut off. now for the other..... man this isn't cool.

 

Hey guys, I know this is an old thread, but I didn't want to start a new one for the same problem.

3 of the 4 cam bolts were frozen on my truck, so I torched them off (much faster and easier than using sawsall or cutoff wheels) but now someone told me that only the front bushings are replaceable. This is a problem because thanks to my stupid "easy" torching, 3 out of 4 of my bushings are burned up

Can anyone back that up? I haven't tried to press my old ones out yet, but I just put an order in for new bushings and bolts and I might as well cancel it if I'm gonna need new control arms to replace the rear bushings.

Sorry, just saw I'm lookin at the wrong section - My truck is a 94 pickup.

 

no. You can replace them all.

Its actually easier, and about the same cost to go grab two arms from the junkyard. No pressing of the bushings, and they work pretty well.

 

Thanks for the info AxleIke, I did get the old ones pressed out when I got home from work. I figure I've got them on order, might as well have brand new bushings under there. I don't know what that guy was thinking, they're the same bushing. Only thing I can figure is he was looking at the parts schematic and it only shows the front one pulled out; he must have assumed that meant it was the only replaceable one.

I thought about the junkyard thing, but the way things rust around here, I figured there was just as much if not more chance that the bolts would be stuck in the junkyard ones too.

 

When I had a seized lca bolt, I heated it up with a propane torch, soaked it in LiquidWrench, and with the nut still on a few threads, I put my air hammer to it. After about 30 minutes it began to break free. I put the air hammer to head of the bolt running it back in.
Back and forth like that a few times and it came out.

 

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Now that we got that cleared up, I just wanted to add that I have gotten those bolts out with an air hammer before. Took a while for them to come out, but they did.

 

That is all fun and what not but what did you use to replace the bolts after you cut them out? I might end up in that situation myself here later today but I am going to go buy an air hammer and try that out first lol.

 

Been so long ago... Pretty sure I just bought another from Toyota.

 

Yeah I ended up cutting out three of themand getting the old bushings pressed out. I ordered them from Toyota at $15 each. Highway robbery.

 

How long did that take? I remember cutting mine out... took me forever. Might have been the choice in sawzall blades though.

Make sure to anti-seize them when you put them back. Hopefully keep you from ever having to do it again.

 

Oh man. It must have taken me 4 hours of actual work time(not counting breaks). I used an angle grinder with a cutting wheel. I had to be careful and I manage not to mess anything up aside from the bolts I was cutting. I tried the sawzall but ast the rate I was going through blades i might as well just cut off the control arms and gotten new ones! Yeah anti-seize is a must, i cant afford that much time, rage, and money on new parts again if I decide to add the Blazeland Long Arm kit in the future.