Axle side trackbar bolt - cant get it out

OBXJ · Aug 25, 2006

Still installing my RE 4.5" lift and I'm damn near done with the front end but I cant get the bolt out of the trackbar on the axle end. I got the nut off of the backside but the bolt wont come out. I can turn the bolt (with a good amount of force) and the trackbar tends to want to turn with the bolt but it wont back out.

Anybody have any suggestions or tips?

Goatman · Aug 25, 2006

Pry bar on the back side of the bolt as you turn it.

Mr.OverKill · Aug 25, 2006

stinks really bad, but if you are swaping the track bar compleetly out, OXY ACCY torch the rubber so you can see the bushing and get a cutting wheel in there to cut the old frozen bolt. second, soak it in break free then the pry bar behind the bolt as you break it free like goatman said.

OBXJ · Aug 25, 2006

thanks for the tips. Ill give the prybar another shot. It's kind of awkward trying to pry and turn but maybe I can corral a neighbor.

xj-grin · Aug 25, 2006

try the above, but don't get your hopes up. The bolt is rusted to the bushing sleeve in the trackbar, so when you turn it, you are really just turning the sleeve inside the bushing. I have had to cut out two of these as the rust was so bad that no amount of soaking or prying would get it done... good luck.

karstic · May 9, 2007

Got the same exact problem.

Anyone try to cut the bolt head off and drill out the rest of the bolt?

HaleYes · May 9, 2007

karstic said:
Got the same exact problem.

Anyone try to cut the bolt head off and drill out the rest of the bolt?

Wouldn't it just spin?

KarlVP · May 9, 2007

Cut the bushing container in half. The round part that surrounds the bushing.

karstic · May 9, 2007

KarlVP said:
Cut the bushing container in half. The round part that surrounds the bushing.

Don't want to do that. Its an Re 1660 Trackbar which I hope to sell.

karstic · May 9, 2007

Haleyes said:
Wouldn't it just spin?

Not sure, it takes quite a bit of torque to spin the bolt.

Sierra Drifter · May 10, 2007

OBXJ said:
Still installing my RE 4.5" lift and I'm damn near done with the front end but I cant get the bolt out of the trackbar on the axle end. I got the nut off of the backside but the bolt wont come out. I can turn the bolt (with a good amount of force) and the trackbar tends to want to turn with the bolt but it wont back out.

Anybody have any suggestions or tips?

I recently had this issue. I used a angle grinder with a thin cut off wheel. I cut the head of the bolt off flush with the bracket. Then I bent the axle bracket out from the axle just enough to get the cut off wheel between the track bar bushing and the other side of the bracket and cut the other side of the bolt off. Then pryed the track bar out. The bolt was sized inside, I put it in a vice and drove it out.

Axle side trackbar bolt - cant get it out

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