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Trailing arm removal tips?
Well I'm stuck again, this time trying to remove the trailing arm on my SC. I can turn the bolt but it appears to be spinning the entire bolt and nut. Do I need to place a wrench behind to stop the entire bolt from spinning? What size is the nut behind? Its very difficult to reach for me--maybe I need to raise the car a few inches. Thanks again.
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Jon: I'm assuming you speak of the small forward end of the trailing arm. Put a 19mm (pretty sure it's 19) box end on the nut. The bolt head should be 22mm. I broke mine loose with my old beam torque wrench. It's on there pretty good. The torque tube has an indentation that you can just get a shallow socket and ratchet into on the bolt head. Also, spray it up with PB Blaster or Aero-Kroil. That bolt and nut are in a wicked spot.
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Pat-yup--its the small forward end. I'll try a 19mm wrench on the back. I dont have a metric shallow socket so I'll try a standard close in size and try my luck. Im getting grease/dirt all over my damn keyboard! I love this, get stuck, post a q on Pelican, fart around for awhile and the answer pops up! Awesome!
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Jon:
Get a beater laptop for the garage!
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I have removed four trailing arms over the past month, and all you need is leverage. I had the luck of working under a friend's lift, but this should come loose. I found a few had used red loctite which takes a number of turns to break away. If you can't budge it, try a little persuasion with a pipe on the end.
Also we used a universal on the end of the socket for the outboard side to get more than a 1/16 of a turn on the rachet.....
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Unbelievably something worked the first time for me. I used a 19mm wrench that I blindly managed to fit behind the arm and then used the standard size shallow socket (closest to 22mm) and one click at a time backed the bolt out I was so thrilled when I removed the trailing arm I held it up in the air and triumphantly screamed like the Predator after making a kill!
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Hmm - I just did this and both ends (nut and bolt head) were 22mm. No wonder it was so hard to get it to clear the torsion bar housing! Damn after-market fasteners!
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When you reinstall you may want to try a 22mm box wrench. Once you get the rythm you can crank the nut back on pretty quickly.
A piece of duct tape holding the nut to the wrenc helps you get it where it needs to be to start the threads. Congrats!
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You should consider yourself fortunate. You've never had the to remove the control arm on an early 911. The bolt faces the other direction. Got the picture?
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