lower swaybar bolts, how to remove?

[LoneRanger]

What is the BEST way to remove the lower swaybar bolts that are pressed into the stock mount?

I've got my lower swaybar disco's and cant seem to smack thoes darn press fit bolts out of there.




do I just need a BFH?


L.R.

 

[katarn444]

Tie rod puller? There is a link but I cannot find it at the moment.

katarn

 

[LoneRanger]

Tie Rod puller? interesting.

 

[Ivan]

Big a$$ C-clamp or Ball Joint press, and sockets....Kinda like pressing a u-joint out....

 

[kubtastic]

best is to use the BFH. Sledgehammer size. If it begins to bend the lower mount you know you'll need to press it out instead.
Or the air chisel, thanks to its many little and powerful hits.
http://www.rocklizardfabrications.com/swaybar_endlinks.htm
or as just above, anything that resembles a ball joint press or puller.

 

[ECKSJAY]

I didn't feel like dicking around with them, so I used a 1/2" drill bit to drill the heads out (kept checking to make sure I didn't go through the head into the bracket). Then I lopped the heads off with a hammer and tapped the sides of the bolts with the same. They came right out and I didn't need a press (didn't have one anyway, lol).

 

[RyleyF]

I guess I got lucky, because my swaybar bottom bolts came out extremely easily the first time I pulled them out. They didn't even have the splines on there to hold them in, it was just a torx headed bolt.

 

[XJ_Jeeper01]

i used a pitman arm puller. i had to cut the bolt in half to fit the puller on but it worked great. (fyi beating the bolts with a hammer isnt a good idea.)
-Matt

 

[Starboard M]

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65352