Re: Left Rear Sway Bar Support Bolt Broken Off (55 Packard 400)

Posted by Kevin AZ On 2007/4/1 19:45:03

Keith....it snapped off because I didn't give full regard to the (52) years of rust etc. underneath and simply rushed things by not using PB blaster. I used a bigger wrench (wrong idea in retrospect), with a longer reach and learned a valuable lesson along the way!

I plan on removing the support arm from my 55 parts Patrician and doing a swap out. Today, I crawled under the parts Patrician and soaked nuts with PB Blaster and went to town using a wire brush. No mishaps thus far. I got the sway bar bushing and nut off this time without snapping things. I also loosen the 'U' bolts from the axle.

I'll be replacing all bushings with a call to Steele tomorrow.


Attached are some more pictures of the situation underneath my 400.

Kevin
Tucson

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