Shane

That is how I got the ones out of my '86 to install the bilsteins. A bunch of oversized washers stacked up and air tools. I lubed 'em with antiseize and when I pulled them after the fire to install them on Helmut they came right out.

Bertrand Daoust

Thanks Herman for the trick. I saw your thread about it
I have tried that with no luck. I think It would have taken some 10 feet wrenchs to have enough leverage!

karl ruiter

Mine were so bad I had to cut the trailing arm apart. I was able to save the hubs, though. Not too bad of a job, I used a $20 HF angle grinder and it just took a few minutes. This after a month or so of trying everything else in the book. I happend to have a extra set of arms on hand so that was not big deal. Photos of the carnage here:
https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...nt-plan-d.html

tailpipe

I gave up on mine and just replaced the whole side with ones from my parts car not a good design might take alook again at the old ones I have to do the rear shocks on #38 this year at some point and i'm expecting a fight there also good luck

Ad0911

You can save the trailing arm by cutting the pin for and aft of the shock. After that you either succeed or fail in removing the piece inside the shock. I succeeded by drilling right through it. Step by step so it will not melt the rubber bushing inside the shock.

Bill Ball

Wow! It looks like somehow I have been cheated out of one of life's great challenges.

Bertrand Daoust

I will try for sure to do as mutch as I can to save the trailing arm.
I realy don't want to cut it.
As I am replacing the shocks, I can cut them. I don't give s...t about them anymore. Already cut and removed the passenger side leaving only metal center part on the pin...

Thanks guys.

jon928se

In this situation with the shock ring removed I would try and cut the pin with a hacksaw behind the shock absorber and in front of the hub carrier. You will have to use some wedges to open up a gap to between the various parts to get the hacksaw blade in there. But if you can disconnect the Shock ring and the hub carrier from the lower A arm you may then be able to pry out the convex washers that sit in the ends of the hub carrier. In my experience the convex washers are what causes the pin to get hung up.

GlenL

A recurring problem for me, in the salty North, is a suspension pin or bolt that corrodes to a sleeve of a rubber bushing. The pin (bolt) will turn but it won't drive out. The solution is to cut the pin off (Sawzall!) and replace it.

I recognize Herman's trick. A big pickle fork is very useful in the approach.

Cosmo Kramer

You could try putting 2 nuts on the end and jamming them together. Then put a deep socket over both of them and get a long johnson bar and try spinning the shaft loose. Once the shaft spins in there it should break the corrosion and drive out.

Man, mine came out with my fingers on my 85, I must have been really lucky!

Bertrand Daoust

Thanks again guys for your help.
Ted: I broke the the tread section on the back of the driver's side doing this with my impact gun!
It breaked before it turned!

Bill51sdr

No kidding! I just got through doing the rear shocks on mine and feel very fortunate not to have had this problem, especially since the original owner of my car was in VA. There was a very small amount of corrosion on mine but nothing that made me consider replacement.

Rob Edwards

Here are the pins from my GTS, which spent its first 7 years and 70,000 miles in NY/NJ/CT. They had been in and out once before, and were nicely greasy when I pulled them. Thank you PO!

EspritS4s

Here's a picture of the one that I ended up cutting so that I could hammer out the pieces:

Bill Ball

Nasty looking.^^^