Upper control arm

[Doubeleive]

greenlee makes several different hydraulic press for punching out electrical boxes, you might be able to rent one and get the correct fitting on there it should pop right out

 

[sumo]

Map gas burns hotter than propane

 

[mooman]

Sawzall. Mine were siezed and a sawzall blade is skinny enough to cut through between the mounting plate and the bushing.

 

[Matahoe]

I picked up some thick Sawzall blades for metal. They cut through 1 inch hardened steel so should work well.

 

[corvette744]

No I have not. I even tried a press and that didn't work either. There are only a few posts on other forums suggesting to cut off the bolts. However clearance is poor for anything other than a cutoff wheel. Iam going to try heat and air hammer. I will try the cut-off wheel as a last resort. I have bad upper ball joints and now bushings after soaking them in pblaster the rubber is loose but the bolts are rust welded to the bushing sleeves. I have new bolts and camber plates waiting for pickup at the dealer. Time to head on over to HF and see what methods of destruction I can aquire.

My plan is to use the torch to cut in where the rubber bushings are and go through in hopes i can pull/pry the arm out and then extract/pound/pull/melt out the bolt remnant from there. Do that exactly or the sawzall eigther one and its out.Have a water spray bottle near if you torch they will catch fire but go right out with the water.

 

[mooman]

Just slide a sawzall in there. Cut the POS!!!

 

[Bombsquad85]

Any luck

 

[Matahoe]

This is on hold. Next on my to-do list. In the process of replacing both head gaskets.

 

[Matahoe]

Just got done with mine. Wow, let me tell ya... this was a pain in the rear BIG time. I had to sawzall the head and threads off on both bolts. I went through 5 metal cutting blades. The rust and the rubber bushing play made this seem like a near impossible job. I'm sure if this was at a shop they would have used a cutting torch or something.

 

[Bombsquad85]

Just got done with mine. Wow, let me tell ya... this was a pain in the rear BIG time. I had to sawzall the head and threads off on both bolts. I went through 5 metal cutting blades. The rust and the rubber bushing play made this seem like a near impossible job. I'm sure if this was at a shop they would have used a cutting torch or something.

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So what I did was I pushed the control arm all the way up on the passenger side grabbed a big effin ratchet then put my huge adjustable wrench on the end of the ratchet and cranked on it till the bolt broke free. When i finally broke the bolt and pulled it out it was all deformed and rusted. I tried a sawzall with no luck so I just muscled it. Almost threw my back out again