Step-byStep remove trailing arms?
Team Owner
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PM GTR1999 - He'll be glad to help you, and his advise is top notch.
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From: Ann Arbor Michigan
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Columbia Missouri
I agree with the beer. Keep a few old tools handy too...ones you don't use. That way when you get pissed...you're not chucking your good ratchet across the garage at the wall.
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From: North Easton Mass
I took the nuts off the bolts on a bare frame and I couldn't budge the bolts with a BFH, and that was with plenty of room to swing. It's not an urgent project but the next step is to get the shims out and saw off the bolts.
Rick B.
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From: Waynesboro GA
Go buy yourself the following:
1. Your favorite Alcoholic Beverage (Plenty)
2. Lots of Sawz All Blades, Long Metal Cutting (you will ruin the centers, so it will take several per side)
3. BFH
4. Relaxing Music
5. Motrin for Afterwards (get enough for at least 2 nights)
6. Stool to sit on low to the ground.
7. Heating Pad (not required)
Its worth it when you get it done, your car will drive like new..
Good Luck! We are all here to help!
1. Your favorite Alcoholic Beverage (Plenty)
2. Lots of Sawz All Blades, Long Metal Cutting (you will ruin the centers, so it will take several per side)
3. BFH
4. Relaxing Music
5. Motrin for Afterwards (get enough for at least 2 nights)
6. Stool to sit on low to the ground.
7. Heating Pad (not required)
Its worth it when you get it done, your car will drive like new..
Good Luck! We are all here to help!
Drifting
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,270
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From: Celeste Texas
1. Jack it up and support it on several stands then cuss
2. soak everything with liquid wrench.
3. drink beer come back tomorrow
4. cuss some more then soak everything with liquid wrench.
5. drink beer come back tomorrow
6. take off tires, brakes and shocks
7. cuss a lot because you will find something else wrong now.
8. soak trailing arm bolts with liquid wrench
9. go inside where it's warm and drink another beer then call someone who has a shock mount removal tool.
10. take off spring and strut rods. This is only fun part because now you are pissed at your car and you get to beat the crap out of the shock mounts. You're gonna have to replace them anyway.
11. cuss even more because those spring mounts are metric bolts and are hard to find.
12. take a pin punch and hammer the trailing arm shims vertically so they come out of the rust holding them down. then pull them out.
13. have another beer you've earned it.
14. pull the shims out, undo the bolts and the trailing arms come out.
15. Go back inside and let your wife cuss cause she just figured out what it's gonna cost.
It's not real bad and I spent about 2 grand but I replaced nearly everything.
Bill
2. soak everything with liquid wrench.
3. drink beer come back tomorrow
4. cuss some more then soak everything with liquid wrench.
5. drink beer come back tomorrow
6. take off tires, brakes and shocks
7. cuss a lot because you will find something else wrong now.
8. soak trailing arm bolts with liquid wrench
9. go inside where it's warm and drink another beer then call someone who has a shock mount removal tool.
10. take off spring and strut rods. This is only fun part because now you are pissed at your car and you get to beat the crap out of the shock mounts. You're gonna have to replace them anyway.
11. cuss even more because those spring mounts are metric bolts and are hard to find.
12. take a pin punch and hammer the trailing arm shims vertically so they come out of the rust holding them down. then pull them out.
13. have another beer you've earned it.
14. pull the shims out, undo the bolts and the trailing arms come out.
15. Go back inside and let your wife cuss cause she just figured out what it's gonna cost.
It's not real bad and I spent about 2 grand but I replaced nearly everything.
Bill
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Racer
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From: York PA
77/350- did mine myself to. I found a shop notes from ZIP, I think, and learned along the way. Spent some time at Boarder's Books reaearching too bucause I couldnt aford to buy them all. Being married I have learned to be verrrrrry patient. Biggest issues were pressing the new bushings in, removing the old, rusty, petrified U-joints from the axels (had to dril them out) and getting the arms out of the cavitys. The bolts and shims had solidified into (1) mass. Sawzaw & PB Blaster were key. Most important thing was patience. I'd get frustrated on the right side and go work on the left. Most corvette shops I talked to said that if I could pick a project (and it was the first thing I did to mine) that it was the worst to do.
Alignment although expensive was easier for the shop. Save any extra shims you have and take them to where you get it alligned. They may need them to make adjustments.
good luck
chuck
Alignment although expensive was easier for the shop. Save any extra shims you have and take them to where you get it alligned. They may need them to make adjustments.
good luck
chuck
