I finally gathered all my courage and laziness tried to change my dog bone bushing today.
spent a few minutes jacked up the car and removed the lower splash guard.
There goes the dog bone. I grabbed my 14mm socket ready to tackle this sucker, and I found out that I can't get the bolt to loose. Messed around for an hour, then decided to give up.
I ended up changed one of my clamp of my FMIC hosing. At least I got something done.

BIG FAILURE

 

Uh, turn your ratchet?

 

Some times you have to put some *** into it. Use a cheater pipe and get your wait on it. Be a man!! LOL. Cheater pipe should work.

 

also, do you have a jack with a piece of wood under your engine, there could be extra vertical tension because of the engine pushing down. but also i would agree and dont take offense to it. just turn the ratchet

 

Soak that bastard in some PB Blaster and let it sit for a bit. Be careful
Using a cheater bar you don't want to completely force it and snap of the head of the bolt.

 

The same thing happend to me a few times. The bolts just would not come out. The best way is to use an impact wrench. Otherwise PB blaster helps a lot too. I suggest looking into a impact wrench though... one of the best tools I bought.

 

I picked up a can of PB blaster from Wal-Mart. Going to try it again during spring break.
Hope it will do it. or else I have to get a new tool. lol

Thx for the advise yall

 

Im going to do this this weekend or next. I dont have a torque wrench. How neccesary is one when putting the new mount in?

 

Get it tight, but don't shear it off. That pretty much goes for most big bolts on the car.

But... a torque wrench from advance is like, $30-40. It beats guessing.

 

Hmm i thought they were more than that. Guess ill have to check on getting one