"micky" wrote:
Respond as soon as possible please. Car up on stands right now. I want
to take it down by 11PM at latest.
Besides front end damage, that I've repaired, the rear forward right
lower control arm, on my 2000 Solara convertible is bent.
I have the replacement part, but the bolt near the center (of the two
bolts) is in something that looks like a soup bowl. The kind that is
flat in the center and then curves up near the edges and curves down
again at the very edge. Maybe it's meant to be a washer.
So I can't get an end wrench or a box wrench on it.
And I can't get a socket wrench on it, not a torque wrench or even a
3/8" plain ratchet or breaker bar, because there isn't enough room
between the bolt and what might be the floor pan for the rear seat. I
would bend that up and out of the way but there is a screw head in the
very spot that needs bending. Maybe I should push it up anyhow????
How should I get this bolt off???
(The nut is fixed in place, and I don't have a cutting torch. )
BTW, so far, all the videos are for front control arms
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/rep...00c15280092983
3 arms...
One runs front-to-back.
Two run side-to-side.
If it's the front of the two side-to-side arms (#1), then as the page above shows,
you need to remove everything else, then drop the "suspension member", the
subframe thing in the middle that all the side-to-side arms connect to.
Have fun.