Look here for help first!Well, Thanks to member DanT, I have found those hitherto-overlooked access holes for the captive nuts for the long control arm bolts; see the photo.
Since no one prior to DanT had ever mentioned these, I thought the nuts were hermetically sealed in the body at the factory - Wrong!
I would emphatically suggest that anyone removing the control arms remove these covers and shoot the juice to the threads. It would have saved moi a lot of worry when I nearly boogered the threads in one of the bolts.*
While I labeled the smaller plug as for an access hole, it is in actuality too far back for the nut; use the larger hole.
Tom M.
* See https://tercel4wd.com/forums/viewtopic.php? ... 67&p=24929
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Access Holes - Front Lower Control Arms
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ARCHINSTL
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Access Holes - Front Lower Control Arms
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"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
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"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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splatterdog
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Re: Access Holes - Front Lower Control Arms
Might not be a bad idea to "juice" that whole compartment now and then. Gotta make sure the bolt has something it can hold on to later..
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Lil Beast
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Re: Access Holes - Front Lower Control Arms
Looks like a nice rust accumulator to me! Lol Juice it good!
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Re: Access Holes - Front Lower Control Arms
Rust accumulator indeed! I just finished this operation on Terc II. Control arm bolts on both sides had rusted so much they were one with the inner bushing tube. I ended up cutting them out with a Reciprocating Saw (it took an entire 5 pack of blades to get through the Grade 10 Japanese bolts). It's good to know that I could drive over an active volcano, the tires may burn off and the gas tank may explode, but those control arm bolts ain't meltin' for nothin' !!!
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