Am I the only one whose LCA bolts came out on the first try, no seize, no snap, completely intact and almost rust free?

 

I think Greddy's worked out for him like that as well.

 

Mine were siezed to hell, had to cut them off FTW

 

Same here, seized on 2 of 3 Civics I've had. Haven't tried removing my bolts on the hatch yet, but since the suspension is only about 10k miles old, I doubt they will be bad to replace. I used a Butane torch of my work truck.

 

So cv you are saying that if the head snaps, I can just heat it up and get it out through the other side? Isn't the nut welded on the shock? And wouldn't I just vice grip the whole thing out of the inside of the bushing? And getting the bolt that how would fadoodle my bushing... eekers.

 

Yah i understand...mine are the 14's (not sure if they ever came in a diferent size) but theyre black and that deffinitely helps the look haha and the gold ones look sick too haha but i only like them on hatches ;p but looked at those Drag dr29's whoooie those are daym sexay! are the ones ur getting gold? ima repaint mine black and eventually gold

But is it really this difficult to remove bolts? Honda must have bolted them on hella welll then huh? hahaha but does this always happen when u change your suspension?

 

Hx rims are all 14", but Vx rims look just like the Hx but only came in 13". My friends Dr-29s are bronze, which I want bright gold so I'd paint them, or see if my friends dad can powdercoat for me.

And the bolts on suspension suck because they are the most weathered. They get constant water in rain and packed on snow and WI winters will rust a car quick, all the salt, ugh. The bolts just get rusted/siezed on.

 

Yes, if the head snaps, you heat up the bushing for the most part and take long wrench (the longer, the more leverage you have), and spin the other side of the bolt in order for it come out. The nut has nothing to do with it.

I am not sure what you mean by using a vice grip since you wouldn't be able to "push" the bolt out. The bolt goes through the bottom of the strut assembly, which has a nut welded onto the back of it.

If the bolt seizes to the bushing, the bushing needs to be replaced. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

 

Well I'm saying I cam break the welds on the nut and try and pull the whole bolt through. I hope the bushing doesn't get f'ed, I'd have to take the whole LCA off if I wanted new ones pressed in, which the other bolts would probably break, and have to order aftermarket ones. I don't feel like buying any, even though Blox are only $100 (I know the bushings aren't polyurethane, I don't care). If the LCA is messed I'll just order Blox LCA with next day shipping. I'll be sprayin PB on everyday, and my friend has some industrial crap that he gets from a guy with a shop he knows, so hopefully it'll help. And I plan on trying to use the impact first, less prone to breaking the bolt using it.

 

Ah yea those wont be too bad to paint tho. Mine shouldnt be too hard to do when i finally get to it

But that makes sense tho the whole weathering stuff. I shouldnt have to worry about that seeing as my car has been in Texas basically all of its life. So yay for a lucky me!