In my 01 XJ, the lower mounting bolt for the sway bar connects looks like it is pressed or welded into the axle bracket. Any ideas how to get it out? I have tried a BFH and simply unscrewing it. Do I need to heat it? Any other ideas? So much for my quick install. Thanks.
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Help!? JKS Install Question
- Thread starter XJJazz
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bgcntry72
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Queen Creek, Alcatraz
I had to grind the head off the torx bolt and then use a punch to get the stub out.
HTH.
HTH.
muduck18
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Geigertown, PA
Had to gind the head off cut the bolt off and use a plasma cutter to drill a hole in the center of the B before i could get it to come out..
good luck.
BTW it's just pressed in with slines on the bolt. get her sprayed with some good d40 or pb and maybe get a big hammer on the back side of the mount (that is if you don't have a tourch and/or plasma cutter)
good luck.
BTW it's just pressed in with slines on the bolt. get her sprayed with some good d40 or pb and maybe get a big hammer on the back side of the mount (that is if you don't have a tourch and/or plasma cutter)
Talyn
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Radford, Communistwealth of Virginia
I uses PB Blaster, a socket and a c-clamp to push it out. A little tapping on teh mount witha bfh while it is compressed and being pushed helps.
GottaBeJeep
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- Colorado Springs
Yucca-Man
NAXJA Member # 683
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO
Muduck - plasma cutter as a drill? Methinks you just enjoy blasting holes in things with that... That's pretty much what I had to do as well though. 7 years of road crud had pretty much seized them in place and no amount of PB Blaster did any good to unlock them. Banging the assembly out with a hammer was starting to bend the swaybar mounts so we needed another fix. I drilled a hole as large as the Torx splines would allow, and ended up grinding the head and 'bolt' off. This left a donut in the swaybar mount, which we punched out using an air chisel.
Beej
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Wet Coast of BC
Mine were hard to remove too. The bolt is splined on the end where it goes through the bracket. On my 97 with over 200000kms I soaked it with Liquid Wrench for a day and then used a "bolt-puller" to remove it (basically a big circular clamp - $10 at the parts store) . You could remove it with a C-clamp and a hammer. One end of the clamp on the bracket, the other on the bolt and start tightening, it will come slowly. Once it started to come out about 1/16", I was able to tap it out with a hammer. Then I redrilled the bracket to fit.
Beej.
Beej.
evilpresence
NAXJA Member #983
- Location
- Arnold, MD
BFH and a blowtorch.