Any suggestions on how to get this bolt out without damaging the arm or bolt?


It is seized into both the arm and the bush in the end bracket.

 

OK, >250 views but no success stories.


I know that Plums was trying to do this at the start of the year but did not see the final outcome and he hasn't been round here for a while.


So here is what I'm thinking, force the two arms upwards which will shear the rubber in the two bushes in the end bracket ( no big issue as new ones are only a fiver each), then I could sit the entire unit in a basin of boiling citric acid for a couple of days, then take it out and try my MAP gas torch on the arm and see if I can get the bolt to rotate in the arm then knock it out.


Else I can just clean it up, paint it and bolt it all back together, but that's not really the way I like to do things.

 

RD, Heat and a 20 ton press over a couple of days, using your best mixture of automatic transmission fluid and kerosene. It took that to get the same type bolt out of a rotoflex GT6 rear that had been in a barn for 30 years.
Almost finish the Spit6 project as we speak. Couple more weeks to get it on the road and then do the body work over the winter.


Good luck, Wayne