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Jul 11, 2009 | 02:17 PM

toadybowl

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Need help with spring install

HELP!!! How do you get this bolt off? I broke it loose, but now I cannot tighten or loosen it anymore. It is just spinning. I am in the middle of working on this right now so I need a quick answer.

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Jul 11, 2009 | 02:23 PM

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that happened to me. i put the impact on it and tightened it up again. then spun it of real quick. its kind of a bitch.

Jul 11, 2009 | 02:34 PM

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Yeah i have tried tightening and loosening with the impact but it is not doing anything.

Jul 11, 2009 | 02:36 PM

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see if you can get something on behind it, thats what i had to like a wrench to hold either the bolt or the whatever to stop the spinning

Jul 11, 2009 | 02:42 PM

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see if you can get something on behind it, thats what i had to like a wrench to hold either the bolt or the whatever to stop the spinning

yeah i will see if I can get anything behind it to hold it

Jul 11, 2009 | 02:43 PM

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i used vice grips

Jul 11, 2009 | 02:47 PM

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if you still have trouble move on to the other side and come back to it

Jul 11, 2009 | 03:12 PM

toadybowl

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i used vice grips

Yeah I got got them off using vice grips. Thanks for the help everyone.

Jul 11, 2009 | 03:25 PM

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rookie move!

Jul 11, 2009 | 03:26 PM

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^^^

Jul 11, 2009 | 08:52 PM

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no comment! took me 20min to install my lowering springs and do a wheel alighnment.
pays to be a licenses mechanic

Jul 12, 2009 | 01:42 PM

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no comment! took me 20min to install my lowering springs and do a wheel alighnment.
pays to be a licenses mechanic

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