top ball joint bolts

[jeffdub]

wonder if someone could give me a bit of advice please ? im buying a set of lowering springs and shocks from brickwerks when i looked at the front suspension i noticed one of the 8mm allen key bolts has rounded whats the best way to get this out and will i have to replace the top balljoint ? thanks jeff

[California Dreamin]

Well, try with an allen key first, knock it ALL the way in and keep it square. If that fails then knock it around with a cold chisel..the ball joint should be just fine.

Martin

[silverbullet]

Get an M8 12-spline tool (preferably one that has a removable 1/2" drive) and belt it hard into the rounded off hex with a #2 copper hammer before applying torque. You won't hurt it, the shock helps to free the frozen threads and the tool will live to do plenty more.

[faggie]

clean the threads what protrude through the top arm and balljoint of rust and grease them then when your undoing bolt its less chance of shearing of

[jeffdub]

thanks for the advice lads