removing rear springs, lca bolt wont budge?

[mustang_montana]

Im working on removing my rear springs, got the sway bar out and the nut removed from the end of the lca but I cant get that whole bolt out. Any tips? I tried using the jacks to get the tension off the bolt, and hammered on it for quite a bit. The thing will spin around but wont slide out. Thanks guys!

cars a 96 btw

 

[lvmustanggt]

Im working on removing my rear springs, got the sway bar out and the nut removed from the end of the lca but I cant get that whole bolt out. Any tips? I tried using the jacks to get the tension off the bolt, and hammered on it for quite a bit. The thing will spin around but wont slide out. Thanks guys!

cars a 96 btw

To remove bolt from lca you have to jack lca with jack till the holes lineup then it will come out just by pulling .

 

[mustang_montana]

hmm, mine must be stuck in there good cause thats what ive been doing. maybe the bushing is keeping the lca from lining up correctly, it looks in rough shape from what i can see.

 

[BurningRubber]

You don't need to remove the LCA's at all if you are just removing/installing springs.

Don't even have to remove the swaybar.


Jack the rear of the car up and place two jack stands underneath the rear subframe.

Have a floor jack under the "pumpkin" of the rear axle to support it.

Disconnect the shocks and quad shocks (both from their axle mounts).

Now lower the floor jack and the rear axle will come down far enough to remove/replace springs.

Reverse order and you are done.

 

[mustang_montana]

wow i like that idea. one thing though, will the suspension alignment get messed up at all doing it this way (replacing both at once) rather than one spring at a time? thanks for the tip, thatll save me a lot of trouble.

 

[SaleenGT2001]

let the axle droop and pull the springs out. no need to remove the lca at all.

u gotta pull the quad shock off too

 

[BurningRubber]

wow i like that idea. one thing though, will the suspension alignment get messed up at all doing it this way (replacing both at once) rather than one spring at a time? thanks for the tip, thatll save me a lot of trouble.

No, the alignment won't change. The springs have no bearing on the position of the axle. However, removing the LCA's will, so you would need a method to pull the axle back to line up the bolt holes for the axle and LCA.

Plus if you removed the control arms, the spring will be under a lot of pressure depending on how far down the axle is dropped and whatnot, and could do some real damage once it is able to "pop" out of it's position on the control arm.

Performing the method I posted is about as simple, quick, and safe as it gets...