By way of explaination for you non-snow people:

The bolt becomes rusted to the sleeve that resides inside the bushing. The sleeve then loses its bond to the bushing, and spins, with the bolt, inside the bushing.

The problem is that the holes in the mounts (in this case, the rear) are only the diameter of the bolt size, and not big enough to accomodate the increased diameter of the bushing, which is now rust-welded to the bolt.

Ergo, you cannot get the bolt (and bushing) to pass thru the mount.

Heat, and rust penetrants are usually useless since the errant part is so far from the access point of the end of the bolt. I prefer to just destroy the arm by burning the bushing, then cutting with a torch the bolt in the middle. Arms/bushings are cheap.

Nature at its finest.

Good racing.

Bill

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