Front wishbone bolt frozen inside sleeve of bush...

[billabong]

Evening all,
Ive spent the day pulling my hair out whilst trying to change my front wishbones.
The bolt on one of the front bushes is seized inside the bush sleeve. I've tried heat (to the point that there is only the sleeve left - no rubber!) but no joy. I've sprayed loads of lube on and still no joy.
I cant quite get a pair of grips in to grip the sleeve...
Any ideas on how to tackle this one? It is definitely not the captive nut...

Thanks in advance!

Will

[itavaltalainen]

What are you using to undo it?
Use a 1m breaker bar and decent socket, managed to get mine undone that way.

[billabong]

Unfortunately that part isnt an issue - I'm using a breaker bar - however its just spinning round and round because the bush sleeve is seized onto it.
Its definitely not the the captive nut because ive checked it and it is intact and still stuck.

[gazareth]

what you need is more heat(a fire extinguisher on standby is also advisable) on the sleeve and someone inside the car with a parallel punch to whack away at the bolt to free it. not to much whacking though incase it mushroom the end. failing that you could hacksaw the head of the bolt and splay the subframe out a bit to get wishbone out

[gasketface]

If it's going round and round and the captive nut is still "stuck" then surely it should be undoing .

What am i missing here ?.Are you talking about the front bush nearest to the front of the car or the rear one which has a captive nut inside the car under the footwell carpet,under a tacked on plate ?.

[madmanmart]

I know this problem, I've seen it before. Even when I did remove the wishbone which involved cutting the subframe I couldn't separate them on the bench.

Mine also ended up stripping the thread on the captive nut.

New subframe time.......

[WeekendMechanic]

I had a problem like this once weld a piece of steel to the bolt with a hole in it then attach a slide hammer to the hole and wack it out

[Bellend]

Drill it.