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Upper control arm bolts
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Sat, 28 December 2002 10:35
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Sorting out the suspension on my Corona Mk2, and I need to undo the upper conrtol arm bolts. There is minimal clearance between them and the bodywork, and the manual suggests I use an SST to undo them.
They are on tight, and look like they have never been undone in the last 27 years. I have saturated them with WD40, and have cut down a spanner to get in there a try to undo them (with hammer persuasion) to no avail.
Any helpful hints? Car is non mobile.
Cheers Dave.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Sat, 28 December 2002 10:46
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whenever i get stuck on a nut or bolt that wont come unstuck i have a long pipe which i use to slip over the end of the wrench or spanner, like a leverage
sst...whats the stand for again...special service tool ?
in the toyota manual i have there is a million sst's and they are all refered to as being sst so they dont really help there only by saying we have a special tool to use that you dont !
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Sat, 28 December 2002 11:07
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SST = special service tool
Yep I have my own very special 4' long piece of 2" water pipe that is my breaker bar extender. Unfortunately, there isn't the room to use it!
Might just bolt it all together and take it to an alignment place and plead ignorance.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Sat, 28 December 2002 11:34
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dave, car on jack stands, lay under car with pipe, scream, kick and wail about... thats what was required on my rear trailing link bolts in a similar location/relation to body panels etc...
kicking the breaker pipe seems to work a treat...
keep at it, and you just want to cry tears of joy when you hear that ellusive *click*
hehehe
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Sat, 28 December 2002 12:15
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Just to show you what I mean, here is a pic. The bolts are facing inwards towards the inner guard, and there might be 2cm total room behind there. The fancy contraption is the aforementioned SST. Hate to see what one of those costs from Toyota if still available.
Still open to suggestions.
Cheers Dave.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Sun, 29 December 2002 07:34
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Whats the number on the sst.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Tue, 31 December 2002 03:54
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Well after 3 days of constant WD40 soakage, and a few phone calls to alignment places with the end result of laughter, I found a 19 mm dwarf ring spanner. This actually fit in the gap, and, with a little persuasion from a brickie's hammer, I was able to undo the 4 pesky bolts.
Thanks all.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Tue, 31 December 2002 04:55
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better you got up and danced when you got it off.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Tue, 31 December 2002 05:14
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Yep, there was much elation! 
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Wed, 01 January 2003 06:16
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Great!
I was getting a bit sick of looking through the pile of old sst's.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Wed, 01 January 2003 06:26
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You have a pile of old SSTs?
Where are you? Please say Melbourne.
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Re: Upper control arm bolts
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Thu, 02 January 2003 00:13
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Um........yeh. kinda.
They're not always put back in their boxes, but, so its kinda hard to find.
Don't get too excited, all the times I've looked for one I needed I've only found he right one a couple of times.
There alot in the pile, but there were HEAPS available. Less so on the newer cars....better design etc. I guess.
Sorry, not Melbourne.
If you want to know more, pm.
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