Removing Stuck Rear Suspension – & Showing It Who’s Boss

Rear suspension this time. The anti-roll bar actually came off without any drama, which in hindsight should have been a warning.

Then we met the bolt on the left trailing arm. We hit it with the impact wrench. We took a hacksaw to it. We tried everything short of asking it nicely. It refused to move, and somewhere in all that effort we may have left the car with a small souvenir. We don’t really talk about that bit.

So we got inventive. That included cutting through a bolt with a flat-head screwdriver, which I can confirm is in no manual ever written. After a few days of this, the rear suspension was finally off.

It was a fight, but the car lost. It just took most of our weekend down with it.