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Getting my '02 RMK ready for a trip and found a carbon fiber trailing arm that was cracked. Needless to say I will be doing some preventative maintenance on them every spring from here on out.
The bold was litterally fused in place from rust, etc. Once I had that drilled out the arm was fused into the weld-mate. Had to take a torch to it and beat it into submision with a rubber hammer. I always take a spare arm with on the trips but would not have wanted to attempt this repair without my full array of shop tools...
Honed out the weld-mate and used a liberal amount of anti-sieze to the arm and new bolt.
Hope I can save someone else a frustrating repair.
PCar
The bold was litterally fused in place from rust, etc. Once I had that drilled out the arm was fused into the weld-mate. Had to take a torch to it and beat it into submision with a rubber hammer. I always take a spare arm with on the trips but would not have wanted to attempt this repair without my full array of shop tools...
Honed out the weld-mate and used a liberal amount of anti-sieze to the arm and new bolt.
Hope I can save someone else a frustrating repair.
PCar
