[DML] Re: partial TAB success

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy

As we discovered today, the "fix" was to knock the shims out, cut the 
training arm bolt with a hacksaw, unhook the brake line, remove the 
entire trailing arm from the car, heat it and beat on it for a while, 
curse a lot, and then give up and replace it. Yes, the whole arm. 
Luckily as DMC parts go the Trailing Arm is not all that expensive 
for a Big Heavy Metal Part. 

I'm going to try heating it with an acetelyne torch to see if I can 
salvage it, but it was sure a good thing that I had the spare one 
from the rolled car. (At the tech session we didn't have a real torch 
available). Although Marty tells me that they worked on one in the 
past that they ended up having to drill out with a Bridgeport mill.

BTW - which side of yours is stuck? I still have one from the 
passenger side here that looks like new. 

Dave Swingle


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Soma576@xxxx wrote:
> List,
> 
> With the bolt seized in, is there any way i can get the whole 
trailing arm 
> out of the car to take to a machine shop or something?  does the 
bolt usually 
> stick in the arm or the frame/bracket?
> 
> I was going to powdercoat my whole suspension this winter anyway.  
maybe i'll 
> just wait until then.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]




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