In the case of this particular bolt, you don't grind the head but cut each
side of the bolt. Then the bolt only has a small distance to be pushed
through. It's the metal bushing that gives the problem, and this can be
knocked away with a screwdriver and small hammer. I learned the hard way
about these rusted bolts. The answer is the angle grinder. If you get one
besure to get a cut off wheel as well as a grinding wheel.
...Art
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Tim Nagy wrote:
> Art,
>
> If the bolt is stuck, and we grind off the head, doesn't that still
> leave the body of the bolt stuck in the middle? I guess, at that point
> you could BFH it from either side, or remove the shock arms from either
> side. But, wouldn't still leav the stuck trunion?
>
> I don't want to be a goof about this, but just spent an hour beating the
> bolt from here to my neighbor's house on Saturday. I have no grinder.
> Read your article, was great, you sent my the URL a few weeks back.
>
> Tim
>
> Skye Poier wrote:
> >
> > Word on the street is that Art Pfenninger said:
> > > Syke, a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder with a cut off wheel will remove the bolt
> > > in under 1 minute. Take a look at the article I did on suspension
> > > rebuilding, I talk about this very problem. I think you have the article
> > > on your web page don't you?
> >
> > Yes I do, a great article thanks. I don't have an angle grinder though,
> > so manually hacksawing through is pretty far down the list of approaches
> > I want to take ;)
> >
> > Skye
>
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