[Healeys] 65BJ8 -- Driver's Side Rear Shock, Furthest Rear Mounting Nut and Bolt

[Mark LaPierre]

If you want Your shocks rebuilt and returned to you , put a letter in the 
box stating just that or you
may get back some pretty dinged up units.  But they all seem to work 
regardless.

Happy Healeying,   Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg's Yahoo" <gmandas at yahoo.com>
To: <warthodson at aol.com>
Cc: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 65BJ8 -- Driver's Side Rear Shock, Furthest Rear 
Mounting Nut and Bolt


> Gary, et. al.
>
> Sorry for the confusion. The nut moved enough to loosen the pressure on 
> the shock, but it froze on the bolt. Frozen together, the nut and bolt 
> spun freely in relationship to the shock.
>
> Thanks for all the feedback, everyone.
>
> We have success.
>
> First, all the feedback put me at ease; Sacrifice the bolt and be careful 
> in there.
>
> The winning suggestion was, drum roll please, from Ed, " Try a Dremel 
> tool".  As I was putting the dermal together I saw the little ball grinder 
> and I had a thought. Since the nut moved only a tiny bit before freezing 
> on the bolt, I figured something was lodged in the first thread.  I took 
> the ball grinder, dentist style, and ran it around the threads where the 
> nut and bolt meet. After that, a little WD40 and 30 seconds with the 
> impact wrench and off it came, begrudgingly.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> And yes. They are on their way to Peter.
>
> Greg
> 65BJ8
>
> Sent from my Wife's iPad
>
> On Aug 7, 2010, at 9:03 AM, "warthodson at aol.com" <warthodson at aol.com> 
> wrote:
>
> Greg,
> If you are saying that you have a socket on both the bolt head & the nut 
> and they spin freely but don't tighten or loosen, then obviously the 
> threads are stripped.
> As you undoubtedly know by now there is not a lot of room to work in that 
> area. A Sawsall might be hard to control without damaging the shock body.
> You might have better luck with a mini hack saw.
> http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1290073
> Gary Hodson
>
>
> When I put the sockets on it, it moved just enough to allow the nut and 
> bolt to
> spin freely, but not loosen any more. I can't tighten it, either.
>
>
>
> ck
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