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My car (2005 Skoda Fabia) has failed MOT on the rear bushes of the front suspension arms. Got the parts and bought the special tool so nearside was "piece of cake" to change. Offside, however, stalled at the start with the bolt that goes though the arm front bush seized almost solid. It took 2 hours with a 2' breaker bar to unscrew just around 1/2" ! I was persevering then suddenly the bolt (around 10mm dia / 18mm head) snapped. Strangely I didn't swear but that was probably because the spanner hit me in the face and damaged my 2 month old titanium framed glasses as well as given me a thick lip
So now I have to both get the glasses reglazed and remove the snapped off bolt.
The bolt goes into an alloy casting and is threaded in about 40mm. The casting has been removed from the car. I tried penetrating oil plus heat from air gun before it snapped without making any difference. Now off the car I could attack with my propane torch until it was as hot as I could get it but couldn't get it to budge.
Plan therefore is to take it to a local engineering company on Monday and get them to sort out. They are a PIA to remove from the car so doubt very much I'd get a secondhand and will be an "arm and leg" new.
So tomorrow I'll be twiddling my thumbs and am wondering if anyone can suggest a trick that might work ? I reckon the problem is permanent type threadlock but would have expected heat to weaken that. The thread that did undo, before the remains snapped off in the casting, came out undamaged and no witness marks of cross threading or corrosion.
Paul H
So now I have to both get the glasses reglazed and remove the snapped off bolt.
The bolt goes into an alloy casting and is threaded in about 40mm. The casting has been removed from the car. I tried penetrating oil plus heat from air gun before it snapped without making any difference. Now off the car I could attack with my propane torch until it was as hot as I could get it but couldn't get it to budge.
Plan therefore is to take it to a local engineering company on Monday and get them to sort out. They are a PIA to remove from the car so doubt very much I'd get a secondhand and will be an "arm and leg" new.
So tomorrow I'll be twiddling my thumbs and am wondering if anyone can suggest a trick that might work ? I reckon the problem is permanent type threadlock but would have expected heat to weaken that. The thread that did undo, before the remains snapped off in the casting, came out undamaged and no witness marks of cross threading or corrosion.
Paul H