How To Remove The Rear Shock Bolt?, The One On The Trailing Arm Options

[Spoke]

The nut comes off ok but the driver side rear shock bolt on the trailing arm is rusted solid and I can't get it off. Tried some heat, liquid wrench, hammer+drift (made the biggest impression on my hand when I missed...), and a pipe wrench. The pipe wrench sorta rounded the head a bit, but no movement? How do I remove this?

I was going to remove the trailing arm (with shock attached) and see if my local machine shop can press it off. Not sure if they can or it would damage the trailing arm.

Also thought about grinding off the head, removing the shock, then taking it to the machine shop for pressing.

HELP!! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif)

Thanks,
Spoke

[Dave_Darling]

It shouldn't be threaded in there, so a wrench is not going to help matters (unless you feel it will break the rust bond between the bolt and the trailing arm). I have always just tapped it with a hammer, but the bolts on my car were not rusted in place... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif)

GABH--Get A Bigger Hammer. Also keep trying the heat. Replace the bolt; it is almost certainly too messed up to re-use already.

--DD