andyfreelandy
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Not very often, fortunately, I get "one of those jobs" !
Offered to replace a strut top mount for a mate. Both strut to hub bolts and nuts seized solid, like they had become one piece of metal. My 350 + ft lb impact driver wouldn't touch it. Nut ended up smoking!! Eventually got one to move with the longest breaker bar I had. The other, no way, had to cut through the nut. Then, because it was effectively welded to the bolt, it still wouldn't smack off...cut several lines carefully and got nut off bit at a time. Then bolt was seized in strut and wouldn't budge. Much penetrating oil and a few cups of tea and it moved a few mm. Then backwards and forwards with impact driver and it gave way.
Meanwhile, track rod end would not shift out of taper with my trusty ball joint splitter or any other force.
So took the track rod adjuster off and when strut was off put the thing on my 3 tonne press. It started to feel quite a dangerous pressure and then it went off like a shotgun !!
So took 3.5 hours to get one strut off. One bolt was over 2 hours of that.
Lovely job ! All this after the workshop flooded and spent most of the early hours pumping out.
Time for more tea !!
Offered to replace a strut top mount for a mate. Both strut to hub bolts and nuts seized solid, like they had become one piece of metal. My 350 + ft lb impact driver wouldn't touch it. Nut ended up smoking!! Eventually got one to move with the longest breaker bar I had. The other, no way, had to cut through the nut. Then, because it was effectively welded to the bolt, it still wouldn't smack off...cut several lines carefully and got nut off bit at a time. Then bolt was seized in strut and wouldn't budge. Much penetrating oil and a few cups of tea and it moved a few mm. Then backwards and forwards with impact driver and it gave way.
Meanwhile, track rod end would not shift out of taper with my trusty ball joint splitter or any other force.
So took the track rod adjuster off and when strut was off put the thing on my 3 tonne press. It started to feel quite a dangerous pressure and then it went off like a shotgun !!
So took 3.5 hours to get one strut off. One bolt was over 2 hours of that.
Lovely job ! All this after the workshop flooded and spent most of the early hours pumping out.
Time for more tea !!
