Re: TR3 Suspension Part IIa
Chuck Centore writes:
> Now comes the problem that I bet alot of you who really love to work
> on British cars have encountered. The front bolt is a suprisingly
simple device but the way they made it go through the frame and recess
> into the frame sleeve is beyond tomorrow. The manual suggests that
> you screw a 5/16 x 24 bolt onto the head of this bolt and to withdraw
> the bolt by means of a lever using the frame as a bearing surface. I
> bent the frame! It won't come out and thats when I lost it.
>
> I heated it with a tourch, I hammered it with a sledge hammer, I
> wonder if this is just one of those little things that make us all a
> little crazy.
To which Bob Gibbons adds:
> You're not going to want to hear this, but I had what sounds like
> an identical problem with the rear leaf springs on my '64 MGB.
> I finally had to get a power sabersaw and just cut both inside and
> outside ends off. It took many hours with several carbide blades,
> but I could not find any other way. After removal, it was apparent
> the bolt was solidly rusted into the shackle, I don't think it ever
> would have come out any other way.
To which I add:
Uh-huh. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Except I couldn't
fit a power sabersaw in to cut the front bolt off the rear spring on
a Big Healey. I had to just hold a hacksaw blade in my hand and saw
until my arm fell off, then use the other arm. I beat on it, used
heat on it, didn't have any liquid nitrogen, made a special drift out
of some steel rod, nothing worked except sawing it on either side of
the spring, just like Bob said.
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