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After procrastinating removing the trailing arms for quite some time, a buddy came over Friday night and we got them removed. I've seen several suggestions as to what Sawzall blades to use, but we used this. Cut through the bolts like butter.
I had soaked the shims in Kano Aerokroil for several weeks. Eventually we got them out, then cut the bolts to remove the control arms. Now I'm going to have VTech rebuild the TA's and rear differential (if salvage able -- had bolts come out of the ring gear and chew up inside).
That's the same blade I used. I had to make two cuts through both the shims and bolt, so eventually it did get dull, but still worked. Not a fun job, but now I have ss bolt and shims and will probably never have to mess with it again.
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I'm in the middle of that too. Luckily the PO had my trailing arms rebuilt. Unluckily becauseof that, I didn'twant to take them apart to paint them. And since I had them apart to align it 3 years ago, it wasn't hard getting them out.
With all the horror stories about getting the TA's out, I was braced to be working on it for hours and going through several blades. I was quite surprised when my friend, who was cutting the bolt on the driver side cut through in about 5 minutes. I would say it took us about 1/2 hour to undo the brakes, pull the shims on the pass side (had did the driver shims previously), and cut the bolts.
We had spent a previous Saturday getting the diff out. The leafs just fell apart.
I will be going with a Sharkbite coil over system.
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Removing Trailing Arms
