Bad sounds coming from the tunnel to the rear of car

[Backdraft]

Hi there,

To get the bolt back in you would need to loosen the lower bolt on the shock absorber. This will remove the tension from the spring and allow you to move the arm around a bit. If the bolt is damaged you need to mark the swing arm bracket(To keep the alignment specs) and then loosen the lower 3 nuts on the underside of the bracket. The bracket will then swing out and you will be able to replace the bolt.

The car under goes 2 seperate PDI's, and this should have been checked at both of them. If you need a better explanation please give the shop a call and we will be able to give a better verbal explanation.

Regards Reg
www.Backdraftracing.com
561-752 3693

[CobraEd]

The irony of all this is that the old bolt came right out on its own with no human intervention at all

Now it will take an act of God to get a new one in.


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[Dinobyte]

Well...I ended up unbolting the shock..jacking up the half shaft, unbolting the trailing arm alignment plate, which gave me enought play to bolt the trailing arm back to the plate. PS>>>I used lock tight on the bolt to prevent this from happening in the future.

I tried to keep it all aligned, but I am sure it is off. I will have to go have an alignment done to make sure.

What a job!

Thanks for everyone's help.

Michael