{"id":3848,"date":"2018-03-26T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2018-03-26T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:00:24","slug":"when-bushings-and-bolts-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/when-bushings-and-bolts-go-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"When Bushings and Bolts Go Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension arms are attached to the car through rubber bushings that have a metal sleeve in the middle where the bolt goes through. In rustier areas of the country like where I live, that means the bolts can be very hard to remove. I reposted an old blog post recently about a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2018\/03\/15\/throwback-thursday-a-friday-morning-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday Morning Nightmare<\/a>&#8221; I had at Toyota trying to get bolt out of a bushing. When replacing the <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2016\/12\/22\/my-car-day-off-debacle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rear shocks and lower control arms<\/a> on my 1997 Civic it took a lot to get the bolts out<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3849\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018_03_26_01.jpg\" alt=\"2018_03_26_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once again, last week, I was replacing a lower control arm on a 2013 Honda Odyssey and ran into this problem. I had to use an air hammer to try to push the bolt out of the bushing, but even with that I needed to heat it with a torch. Eventually that completely burned out the rubber portion of the bushing, leaving the inner metal sleeve I&#8217;m holding in the picture along with one of the ends of the bolts I ended up torching off. The rest of the bolt is still stuck inside the bushing, never to come out.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension arms are attached to the car through rubber bushings that have a metal sleeve in the middle where the bolt goes through. In rustier areas of the country like where I live, that means the bolts can be very hard to remove. I reposted an old blog post recently about a &#8220;Friday Morning Nightmare&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[55,58,70],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-rust","tag-suspension","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}