Miata Mailing List: August 1998, Message #104

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Mark,

When I was installing my Koni's I loosened one of those bolts.  When I
went to re-torque it, someone told me the wrong torque and ripped it
right off.  That damn bolt has 3 spot welds on the back of it.  I
tried punching it out with a punch and 5lb. sledge, grinding it,
prying it off, and nothing worked.  Mine was the passenger side bolt
and the muffler was hanging in the way of getting a drill on it.  I
couldn't even get an angle drill up there.  I didn't want to drop the
exhaust to get it off.  As it happens, I pick up a nail in my new T-1s
and take it to a local service station to get it plugged.  Low and
behold the mechanic owns a Miata and knows Peter down at PBC.  He says
that he'll replace it for $20.  The guy took a propane torch to it to
soften the spot welds and punched it out.  Wham bam 5 min it's out and
replaced.

===
Derek Engelhaupt
Customer Engineer
Hewlett Packard
'97 White Mazda Miata with RB intake(U), Koni's, driving lights, 
15" Konig GT-Rs, Toyo T-1s, and Hard Core Bar.
Odenton, MD

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.  I want to
achieve it
through not dying.
-- Woody Allen



---mopperman1@juno.com wrote:
>
> I got home from autoX today and noticed noise from the rear
suspension of
> the car. It turned out to be the bushings on the Sway Bar. I took them
> apart and lubricated both bushings but upon reinstalling I over
torqued
> one and broke off one of the 2 bolts that holds the bushing on. I
think
> my only option is to drill it out and install a nut a bolt to secure
it
> again. 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Thanx 
> 
> Mark Opperman
> 
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