Civic-EG.com Forum 3.3.1

- Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:30 am #86632 I'm still working on the rear suspension. I broke a few bolt heads off and am having to drop the whole suspension in one piece. All the bolts are loose and all off except the one that holds the link arm to the chassis.
I think it is the 'link arm', anyway, the one at the front end of the trailing arm. The bolt is loose, but as it unscrews it does not come out of the bracket or bushing. Instead the bushing seems to be captured on the bolt and bends the bracket open until the threads disengage, but I cannot pull the bolt out. I made a 'clip' to try to keep the bracket from bending. only partially successful. Other than grinding off the bolt head with my dremel, is there any other way to get this bolt out?
You can see some of the thread, between the bushing and the chassis.
Thanks for any suggestions.

- Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:11 am #86634 That picture is reallllly close.

Is this what your talking about?

http://www.hazone.com/images/reardisc/prd018.jpg

Try jacking the suspension up to reduce stress on the bolt.

- Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:22 pm #86665 Yup thats the same place, but mine is on the other side. There is no room for tools. The exhaust pipe final bend is right there and the parking brake cable too. There is barely room for the socket and ratchet, and as the bolt comes out the ratchet rubs on the exhaust pipe.
Yours looks nice and clean too.
The pic is so close cause the car is on jack stands in the street and that is a high as my jack goes. Actually, it is the jack plus a brick.

- Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:20 pm #86694 is the rest of the suspension still supported or just hanging?
I'm thinking there is tension on the threads from it not be aligned in the hole.

When in doubt...take it off from other side of that little arm. The end going into the big rear trailing arm. Your actually supposed to do it that way so you dont screw the toe up and ruin the alignment.

- Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:18 pm #103140 Well, it is much later, and I want to put the rear suspension back on the car now.
It looks great, painted and with new bushings and bolts.
but there is a problem....
I had to bend the mount shown above quite a bit. No prob there, I can bend it back, but the nut inside the housing has fallen out of its track.
I can poke it around with a pick, but that is not going to get it in the track.
I think I'm going to open up that hole in the bottom so I can at lest get one finger in there and hopefully press the nut back into the track.
Has any one else had to do this?
If so how did you do it?
Thanks for all you help.
Dino.

- Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:12 pm #103156 hmmm I did that on my front end...welded it.

but in that place..not so easy to fix.