S13 - Lower control arm bushing sleeve seized.

[kuruptR]

I dont know how this happened but it happend to my passanger side lower control arm.

Problem:
Lower controll arm bushing has a metal sleeve so the bolt can go through it, the sleeve seized to the bolt. so the bolt wont come out!!! the nuts off bolt.

Tried to:
Impact it out, try to rotate it with huge breaker bar, but the bushing moves.
Tryed torching it, heated the control arm. heated bolt to see i could get it to crack or losen.
wd-40'd also.
Hammered the piss out of it.. still wont go through.
Also the Head of the bolt, wont let a screw driver or anything between it and the crossmember, i tried hammering one into it.. but no luck.

What do I do to get this out? I dont have an extra cross member so i cant remove it.

[Dweezil]

There's this stuff I've used on a few things like that called Sili-Kriol. You can buy it directly from www.kanolabs.com If you spray it on there an leave it for anywhere from a few minutes to 24 hours it will loosen anything. I've used it on tie rod ends here in Michigan and it hasen't failed yet.

[andrave]

right. but it prolly won't work. I've used stuff that like, but it doesn't always work. that shit is seized. if you can, cut the bolt off, and go ahead and buy a new one. If I remember correctly, I think it takes the same bolt as the TC rod, and they are usually backordered cause so many of the fuckin things seized up. Hello, nissan, metal to metal contact with no lube???
whatever.
anyway yeah those bolts get stuck all the time. May be a good time to cut the whole thing off (if you can't get to the bolt) and replace it with a fresh control arm with new ball joints.
but if you don't wanna do that, just use a grinder to cut the head off the bolt, and a crowbar to pry the bracket out a bit to get the control arm out. Take it to a machine shop and have them drill the remnants of the old bolt out. I had to do that once. usually once you get it out you can use a sledge and a punch to clear the old bolt out.
If you really want to try and get the bolt out, thread the nut on the end, heat the bolt with a torch (youre prolly gonna end up smoking your lower control arm bushing tho) and then use a big ass breaker bar while you beat on the other end with a hammer. If you can get an impact wrench on it, try that and set it to its highest setting. The hammering and force combined with the heat can sometimes break it loose. Oh, and when you finally get it out, grease the shit out of the new one with never seize before you put it in.

[kuruptR]

i will try that.... heres what im gonna try today in a bit..

us a cutter... make a penny sized notch in the head of the bolt... put a pry bar in notch hammer at one side and pry the other sized... if that doesnt work... cut and cut.