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Originally Posted by thanos.m
Great info here thanks a lot ! I'll speak with my MGR expert about this approach see what he says (I'm not really equipped for this job to do it at home)
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He'll still need to get the upper arm to subframe bolts out without the causing the captive nuts to start spinning, which they're likely to do if the bolts are very rusty.
The RH upper arm captive nut on mine started to spin because I didn't soak the
protruding tip of the bolt with penetrating oil before I started. I should have lowered the subframe first (to gain access).
Here are the upper arm captive nuts - they're not visible from any other angle. If they start to spin the bolts won't come out and you'll have to take the subframe off.
The lower arm captive nuts can be seen from underneath - access is easy.
Lower arm pair again - closer (split) view
More access through here (arrows)
For reference, here's a full view of top side (not visible from under the car).
And this is the bottom side.
Here's the tip of the RH upper arm bolt protruding from the captive nut (on a new subframe). De-rusting the tip and bombarding it with penetrating oil is the key.
