MackZ24
15+ Year Contributor
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- Sep 27, 2004
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Ottawa,
Ontario_Canada
The Background;
So here's where my problem sits now. This EZ-Out is stuck, it's not coming out, and I'm not sure what my options are. I live out in the country (in Canada) and there aren't really any parts cars around me to get another rear trailing arm from. I could attempt to find one a few hours away and have it shipped to me. My current trailing arms are all ABS, is it going to matter if I put a non-ABS arm on only one corner of my car? I don't think the ring on the ABS hub that isn't present on the Non-ABS will make a difference but I just had to make sure first.
The other option is where it gets really tricky. I basically have full access to a large fabrication company. What I was thinking about doing was just completely cutting off the mount that the shock bolt goes into. It shouldn't be very hard for me to find another piece of steel tubing with the same inner and outer diameter. I thought that if I could do this, I could weld it on where the previous one was, then just re-tap for the correct thread size and use that. However, I'm not sure if this is completely safe. For the most part, the welding should hold up, but it is a rather stressed part of the car and I didn't want to take any chances if there is anyone that is sure it wouldn't hold up.
I apologize for the lengthy post, but any help in this matter is greatly appreciated.
-Mack
Upon removal of my passenger side rear trailing arm I ran into a bit of a problem. The Lower Shock Mount bolt snapped. This wasn't such a big deal, there were still a few threads showing, so I welded a nut to the end and tried to break it loose again. Well, no dice. It just broke again and this time flush with the rear trailing arm. So the drill was brought out, drilled a pilot hole and then a larger hole inside the bolt. There was only about 2mm or so of bolt left on each side. Took a 5/16" EZ-Out and went to work. Well, this bolt was persistant and the hardened steel EZ-Out snapped. After this I was getting pretty frustrated. Didn't have any cobalt bits, so grabbed a Titanium tipped one and tried to get through the EZ-Out but that just isn't happening.
So here's where my problem sits now. This EZ-Out is stuck, it's not coming out, and I'm not sure what my options are. I live out in the country (in Canada) and there aren't really any parts cars around me to get another rear trailing arm from. I could attempt to find one a few hours away and have it shipped to me. My current trailing arms are all ABS, is it going to matter if I put a non-ABS arm on only one corner of my car? I don't think the ring on the ABS hub that isn't present on the Non-ABS will make a difference but I just had to make sure first.
The other option is where it gets really tricky. I basically have full access to a large fabrication company. What I was thinking about doing was just completely cutting off the mount that the shock bolt goes into. It shouldn't be very hard for me to find another piece of steel tubing with the same inner and outer diameter. I thought that if I could do this, I could weld it on where the previous one was, then just re-tap for the correct thread size and use that. However, I'm not sure if this is completely safe. For the most part, the welding should hold up, but it is a rather stressed part of the car and I didn't want to take any chances if there is anyone that is sure it wouldn't hold up.
I apologize for the lengthy post, but any help in this matter is greatly appreciated.
-Mack