Hello - I have one nut that I cant get off this car - I dropped the motor/trans/right trailing arm all in one piece - and the drivers side trailing arm nut - toward the motor will not budge - the motor is not in the way and the outside nut is off - I have a clean shot at it , but the bolt now spins - I cant double nut the out side of the bolt (not enough threads) this is a tough one - kickin my butt - may have to sazall this out - the car is trashed ( broke in two when I jacked it up) thanks for any help Scott in Savannah building a budget race car for www.chumpcar.com 912-201-017five 9-9pm est thanks

Scott, last one that I had like this I had to take the cutting wheel to. You may try using heat and some PB Blaster first however.

The shaft is spinning - i cant stop it to get the nut off - i think the cutting wheel is coming out tomorrow nite if I cant find a trick before then - thanks

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Can you tack weld it to anything to get it to stop spinning? It's too dark to go look under my car right now. a small tack that you can remove later might help.

Other people have used a pipe through the wheel studs turned against the floor to keep the hub from spinning while using a 3/4 breaker bar and a long large extension and a bit of heat on the nut!

If you need to save the shaft, get two thinner nuts and double-nut on the outside.

A tack-weld between the shaft and trailing arm might work as well.
Andy

Just sawzall it. I've got plenty... freshly zinc plated too.

It's spinning because someone put some aftermarket bushings in there would be my guess.

Shafts are yours for the cost of shipping of you need them.

Jeffs9146....he's not talking about the axle nut.....the shaft/nut that goes through the trailing arm that attaches to the body....

Are you replacing trailing arm bushings??? You could knock the whole shaft out toward the center of the car after the bushings are removed/heated....then put the shaft in a vice and remove the nut....or cut it out and get one from Eric.....

If it's turning why can't you just drive it out to the inside far enough to get a pipe wrench or vice grips on it?

Oops sorry I forgot the inside mount hole is too small for the shaft to go through. If you can't tack the shaft maybe you can tack the stuck nut to the mount and turn the shaft after double nutting it. I am pretty persistant but I think the cutoff wheel would have been my solution if heat didn't do it.

If it's the nut that holds the trailing arm to the chassis, put the outside nut back on and tighten, then loosen the inside one a bit, then loosen the outside one, then inside, then outside, and so on.