Lower Front Control arm bushing...

[Huy009]

sooo i decided to slap on my teins today.... and low and behold... my lower control arm bushing is siezed??!?!?!?! has anyone ever encounter this? gawd dam it and i pwnded it too trying to get it out.... blah... i guess off the shop it goes!

[cokinut]

haha.

welcome to the wonderful world of Notorious Honda LCA bolts.

i broke 2 bolts on my friends cars and had to have them drilled out (couldn't press 'em out worth a doo doo).

I just did my accord and the first thing you should do is slap some PB buster or anything to help. let it sit. Then get get a breaker bar / ratchet + pipe and Tighten the bolt (yes, tighten). What this does is help break the "frozeness." then loosen the bolt using a lot of manpower while at the same time trying not to round off the head of the bolt. That's about it.

Once you get it going it'll be kinda tough to turn the bolt but it'll come through. Then get hammer the tip of the bolt out and then get a screwdriver to finish pushing the bolt thru the lca & shock.


A general question to all, would heat work in gettin the bolt out - like using a torch?

edit didn't cpmike have a DIY bushing removal and installation. if that's what you're looking for i believe it's in the DIY section. it was a pretty raw method, but worked

[williamsvt]

i'm not even sure if i know what the lower control arm bushing is, are you talking about where a camber kit would go?

anyways, as Lester said use a lot of PB blaster (costs kind of expensive, but works very very well), and then as lester said get a break bar or something and try that or try to use something push it out. One of the things that helped me were anti-strip ratchet pieces that we hammered on and we could ratchet/breaker bar off.

in response to the heat question, in my case it helped out a lot. it was about 10 degrees out when were trying to get the bottom bolt out for the suspension (the one that tightens the area around the lower part of the strut) so when we blasted it with heat the whole area kind of expanded, which helped us eventually remove the bolt.

[Huy009]

yea heat helped....but one thing.. it help to fawk up the bushing gawd dam it!... now the car isnt even drivable anymore now the bushingis toast all i hear is knocking knocking now everytime i hit a bump... oh well front LCA isnt that expensive anyways im getting them for 100 buck installed.. oh well at least this would save me the headaches

[cokinut]

yeah i hear that man. $100 for something stupid like that. or if you got time, go to a junkyard and possibly find another one?

[Huy009]

mmmmeh 100 bucks for new LCA isnt so bad actually and thats installed... i dunno im at the point now that i dont even want to look or work on the car now...blah i cant even drive it now.... meh i would go to the junk yard but i dont even have the time to do so.. oh well pay someone to install it and get it done and over with.

[dualacord]

Your crazy man

Your crazy dude for a hundred bucks you can upgrade and get polyurethane bushings for the whole front end by Energy suspension check this out.
https://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb5/node/38632

[Conspiracy]

Im playing with that same problem right now only mine is in the back. I've successfully cut off the nut thats welded to the strut and removed the strut but now Im stuck with a seized bolt going thru the bushing. Im trying to figure out to remove the old bushing and replace with a new one now. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[deckeda]

... but now Im stuck with a seized bolt going thru the bushing. Im trying to figure out to remove the old bushing and replace with a new one now. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Presumably you took care of this by now. Thought I'd contribute anyway in case someone was searching.

On mine I took off the knuckle since that's not too hard. Left the upper control arm attached since I didn't have a tool to safely remove it and didn't want to damage that ball joint. Again, this was on the rear like yours Conspiracy.

Took the knuckle and put it on a bench vise and drilled out the bushing. Destroyed the rubber little by little and finally picked at the bushing outer part until it collapsed. PITA.