Honda Civic Rear Struts : When The S.H.T.F.

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1. Just an FYI, had a customer come in today that was in desperate need of a car so I made him a great deal on the Lil Red Hondoo Civic. He was driving a very rotted out 1991 Accord. I just need to do a couple more small repairs on it so it is 100% then it is moving onto a new owner…

2. Green crusty whisperer and now torch whisperer too.

3. Nice to see your family . Nice when you have the gear to heat stuff up .

4. I would have done it just like you did it…your the best❤❤❤

5. I drill holes.

6. nice job

7. With the torch, I would have cut the nut with the bolt from the other side of where you snapped off the bolt head. Then you dont have to get the bolt out of the sleeve. Just pry it out of the bracket.

8. Call a priest

9. I do nothing different than that. I live in eastern Canada.

10. For FYI get a baby pipe wrench if you face this again you won't have to use vise grips many years of working in boiler room

11. Trying to understand why not use a reciprocating saw with a metal cutting blade and cut the bolt on each side inboard of the mount? Seems like there would be less cutting, and less danger using that method. The piece of bolt left in the mount can be knocked out using a punch. The mount itself is not threaded, only the hex nut, so big nasty could easily knock out what is left, and a new bolt can be used with the new strut assembly.

12. Common to us all. Can’t a fifteen minute job turn i to an all day effort? Lucky you have a lift. And a torch. Just changed my struts 04 civic. Didnt break the bolt, but had to shave off 1/2 millimeter of the strut to get it in the bracket. Cheap stuff off evil bay. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one and a master mech can have the same issues. No disrespect. Good job bud.

13. It happen to everybody not just you don't worry about it Thank you

14. Appreciate all of it Bro🤟

15. Appreciate all of it Bro🤟

16. Wish I had a pile of money. You're a lot better than the movies. Which I haven't been to in 30+yrs. Great kids. I know, they're older now. Later they get too busy to hang with Dad.

17. We’ve all had days like that.
    Sometimes you’re the bug
    Sometimes you’re the windshield.
    Today you were the bug!! lol.

18. I would have soaked the bolt and threads down with penetrating oil for about 10-20 minutes. Then I would have tried to loosen the bolt. Then more penetrating oil and smack the bottom of the strut with a BFH to get the bushing to move. More penetrating oil and bolt turning and smacking the bottom of the strut to get the bushing to move some more. I hate having to use a torch on anything under the car because I always get slag in someplace where I don't want it(down my shirt, in my glove). Thanks Mr. O. If there's a torch, there's a way.

19. I love torch porn

20. My method would involve dynamite to get the bolt out. 🙂

21. My bone head move was doing upper control arms on my 03 trailblazer bought a 21mm ratcheting wrench just for the job a cheap one that doesn't have a lever to change from off to on, in order to do that you flip it around, so I'm doing the passenger side where the ratcheting wrench was needed but was warned to watch out cause as you are loosening the bolt is going to come out to the body, well I wasn't paying attention and wrench and bolt head were against the body and I can't tighten cause of the wrench tried to use vise grips but the ratchet would allow it so I tried to bend and even cut a little metal off with no luck i called my local chevy dealer to see if they had a upper arm bolt and they had one so after picking it up I got my reciprocating saw and Dewalt demolition blade and bam 10 minutes later new arm was in, 1 hour of wasted time because of my mess up, as good as you are with that torch I'm as good with a reciprocating saw on this I would of done some cutting

22. Hey Eric, felt sorry for you. I've been there too. At least you had a torch. Our shop isn't so well equipped (corporate fire regulations). What I've done is cut the bolt with an aggressive Sawzall blade like the Diablo blades. Cut the bolt between the bushing and the bracket. You're replacing the bolt anyhow. Even with an aggressive blade, it still takes a bit to get through the bolt, but it works.

23. Just wanted to drop a comment, I have been doing car repair and fabrication work since High School, I graduated in 1985. I don't have near the knowledge and experience you have and is why I find your videos so helpful. I have my own small shop where I do light fabrication and repairs from lawn mowers to trucks part time. It is always great when you can find legit mechanics doing great videos. Thanks again!!

24. If you buy a new Honda, drive it and enjoy it for a week or so and then start soaking everything underneath with fluid film regularly so parts can be easily replaced.

25. 4:20 you can faintly hear 'when you were young' playing for about 20 seconds

26. Man I just did it too !! same thing lol fun time

27. Imagine busting/stripping 3 out of 5 bolts. That’s why I’m in electronics. Once I had to use a breaker bar and a floor jack to remove a tire bushing nut, not to mention a sledgehammer, all the power tools failed and my compressor up and died. Took me a week to change my oil the bolt was too close to the exhaust and I couldn’t get the car high enough off the ground to reach it since my floor jack died.

28. Mr O bad video it keeps stopping

29. being you broke the bolt, wouldn't ot have been easier to have used a Sawzall to cut through the bushing near the side where the other end of the bolt was? then pry out the bushing?

30. A saws-all wouldn't have cut the bolt ?

31. Old Video but I would start by heating the bolt head and threads red hot, let cool, soak with Penetrating oil try to loosen and repeat as needed. The heat should/ hopefully break the rust bond and draw the oil in.

32. Sawzall with short blades works. I have the same car and live in the rust belt so alot of the "simple" jobs go south quickly.

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