Front upper control arm bolt stripped
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Front upper control arm bolt stripped
Read the title, Not much to describe...the head of the bolt is stripped. What do I do now to remove it? Anyone run into the same issue? I'm trying to remove my SPC arms I don't think I like them.
Wouldn't have stripped the head if I took the strut off first.
Wouldn't have stripped the head if I took the strut off first.
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Vice grips on one end and wrench on the other
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Thanks for the input...Noticed the threads come out into the engine bay, just gotta remove the power steering reservoir. Didn't want to mess up the threads with vice grips so I was using them on bolt's head. I think I will use a bolt extractor socket on the head and maybe grab the threads on the other side at the same time...the head is completely stripped
Anyone care to share their experiences?
Anyone care to share their experiences?
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i would hope you would use the vice grips on the head and not the threads lol but thats the only way i have ever gotten bolts unstuck when the head was stripped, you could also spray some wd-40 on it let it sit for ten mins and than try to pry it off again
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Thanks for the input...Noticed the threads come out into the engine bay, just gotta remove the power steering reservoir. Didn't want to mess up the threads with vice grips so I was using them on bolt's head. I think I will use a bolt extractor socket on the head and maybe grab the threads on the other side at the same time...the head is completely stripped
Anyone care to share their experiences?
Anyone care to share their experiences?
The bolt is a oem nissan special bolt, i remember it having somewhat of an old shape to it.
see pic:
-J
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I got a new bolt from the dealer so I thought I would try to remove it again...lucky i found a nut in my stash that worked because I couldn't reuse the nut in the engine bay...The bolt extractor didn't work at all. Going to try to return it
So I got it from the engine bay by jamming a screw driver in the bracket holding the nut and then ripped the bracket off then was able to remove the bolt that way, check the pictures
So I got it from the engine bay by jamming a screw driver in the bracket holding the nut and then ripped the bracket off then was able to remove the bolt that way, check the pictures
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Yea saw that, but saw the price too...will be purchasing Kinetix upper arms soon. Probably won't be able to sell my SPC arms if there is no bushing replacement.
The SPC arms are designed so poorly when you tighten the two bolts the inside metal sleeve is tight and the arms just goes up and down (with suspension movement) by twisting the bushing. The bushing just tears. I saw the Kinetix arms and the bushing is not linked to the arm or mount bolt so it will raise and lower on a better axis without destroying the bushing
The SPC arms are designed so poorly when you tighten the two bolts the inside metal sleeve is tight and the arms just goes up and down (with suspension movement) by twisting the bushing. The bushing just tears. I saw the Kinetix arms and the bushing is not linked to the arm or mount bolt so it will raise and lower on a better axis without destroying the bushing
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Yea saw that, but saw the price too...will be purchasing Kinetix upper arms soon. Probably won't be able to sell my SPC arms if there is no bushing replacement.
The SPC arms are designed so poorly when you tighten the two bolts the inside metal sleeve is tight and the arms just goes up and down (with suspension movement) by twisting the bushing. The bushing just tears. I saw the Kinetix arms and the bushing is not linked to the arm or mount bolt so it will raise and lower on a better axis without destroying the bushing
The SPC arms are designed so poorly when you tighten the two bolts the inside metal sleeve is tight and the arms just goes up and down (with suspension movement) by twisting the bushing. The bushing just tears. I saw the Kinetix arms and the bushing is not linked to the arm or mount bolt so it will raise and lower on a better axis without destroying the bushing
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The SPC arms are counterproductive... to set at ride hieght you need to push the arm all the way up into the top of the wheel if your car is low (2" or more) to tighten the mounting bolts, but then you can't access the camber nut!!! So you have to pull the arm down to access the nut tearing the bushings and doing this a couple time to finally get camber ok your bushings are already shot, they still move even at ride height if your suspension is flexing 1" when driving over dips on the highway
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