help! on the rear spring shackle the upper bolt and sleeve are all rusty, the bolt is all the way out of the nut but now just spins with the bushing sleeve which is probably stuck/bound to the bolt.
i put my pickle fork/air hammer on the bolt head, used a plumbing wrench and wailed on it with a hammer but it won't come out. nothing to pry against since the frame cup is thin sheet steel. hammer does nothing since the bolt is basically captured in rubber bushing.
ideas?
since i'm replacing the shackles i was thinking of drilling a hole through them and through the sleeve and putting a screw in there to hold it? then hopefully the bolt will back out?
only other option is to fabricate some sort of press...
any other ideas?
thanks!
i put my pickle fork/air hammer on the bolt head, used a plumbing wrench and wailed on it with a hammer but it won't come out. nothing to pry against since the frame cup is thin sheet steel. hammer does nothing since the bolt is basically captured in rubber bushing.
ideas?
since i'm replacing the shackles i was thinking of drilling a hole through them and through the sleeve and putting a screw in there to hold it? then hopefully the bolt will back out?
only other option is to fabricate some sort of press...
any other ideas?
thanks!