 Hey guys Working on the Jesus bolts. I got a tip for you. If you don't have a garage with packed with tools like torch Maybe a grinder saw saw some heavy machinery then Don't even attempt to remove those bolts for those who don't know let me show you so that's the Jesus bolt in question It's basically these longest bolts that go through the bottom of the knuckle and attach the both I Guess the front and rear rear control arms to the knuckle now This guy The other way this guy used to be here as you can see this is cut and that's still stuck So the issue with these is They get stuck inside the bushing the inner metal thing That's attached to the bush or the bushing is attached to so this part is Part of the bushing that's the bolt it gets also gets stuck in here in here and obviously the same as The other side over here As you can see everything is out so This is the very first time ever During the life of this all six STI that they've been taken out never before. That's why they're so stuck so I Don't know how the newer STIs are probably a different Concept, you know, but if you have one of these and it's in good shape You plan to keep your Subaru for a long time Do these bolts you're gonna have to do them sooner or later Now I'm doing this because I'm taking the diff out for the fourth time or whatever it may be Because one of these bearings the attack or known the coasting bearing whatever you call it right about here It's making noise when coasting. I hope it's the diff and it's not the transmission fingers crossed So yes, you can take the diff rear diff out without Removing those bolts out of the knuckles now if you're doing the diff You're taking it out yourself. You got you know, you obviously, you know Somewhat what you're doing, but what I have done many times before is you undo the inner parts of the control arms the bolts These guys here. Okay from the subframe The rear subframe basically on both sides obviously so there's four total two of those are Your alignment bolts for tow. So you take those Four bolts out Then you undo the 32 mil Axle rear axle nuts sway bar link both sides the drive shaft the obvious stuff, you know Whatever nuts and bolts the the rear diff is mounted on The now the tricky part is to remove that front control arm bolts Because the axle is going to be in the way and to remove the axle you got to remove that bolt So the bolt needs to come out first now. I can show you on the car What I'm talking about. So these two this is where the control arms Connect to right so front control arm rear control arm and this is where the That the adjust alignment adjusting bolt is so the CV boot is going to be right here and this bolt will have to come out this way Right from left from right to left So what do you do? You know, obviously your car is jacked up the axles We're gonna be are gonna be hanging down. So what you do when once you undo these nuts from the back, right? then You want to on the knuckle itself You want to raise it up? Always as far as you can until you're starting to raise the car a little bit. Okay, you know stop once you do Then that axle will rise up. It's gonna be kind of You know angled up and then you're gonna have room still it's not gonna be easy You're gonna have room, but you should have enough room to pull that bolt out Then you're free. Those two will come out then you can actually pull On the knuckle You know this whole thing this everything will come towards you then you can actually pull the axles out out of the diff and out of the The knuckle here the hub And then you're set then it's it's back to you know pulling the actual Our rear diff right whatever bolts you've you got to take out And I've done this many many times Well for no three or four or whatever. I'm still gonna take this lateral link out There's a bushing on a replace and there is another still hot and This rubber bushing also and obviously I'm gonna get well already have these all eight bushings for the controllers and these are Super pro blah blah blah injured engineered to outperform. We'll see about that Made in Australia, so I'll show these later once I'm ready to install this all this So yeah, just a kind of a quick talk. I don't know take it as a tip or not, but First what I found because you know you can hear it all up. It's not gonna work. You're gonna burn the bushings Obviously, it's gonna be easier to if you take this out, but if you're not like to I guess the This one is still attached by the parking brake line so you have to dismantle Your parking brakes to be able to take this line out There's a pin once you have all the parking brake shoes and whatnot Out then you can pull. There's a you know pin. It's obvious guys on one of these shoes. There's a this line hooks up onto this shoe and Then you hunt and hook that which is easy. It's like doing brake drum brake a brake drum shoe job There is this pin right here. You just pull it out and this will Lubricate this and this will pull out then you can take this whole thing To your bench and work on it there. If not, it is probably still doable. It's just an awkward position what you do is Without heating it up because obviously you can I've tried heating Just this up. You can see it's Melted a little bit So it would this kind of bolt would heat up the metal in this this inner washer Whatever I keep forgetting with these the metal part. It's like it's goes through the whole Inner control arm here the guy that's stuck Try to heat this bolt up just so It would heat up that part and it would kind of Melt the bushing whatever and that maybe that would Break it loose, but you still got to do it this on both sides at the same time to be able to undo this Both it's just it's not gonna work. You're gonna end up burning making a fire You know smoking up your whatever you are shop garage, whatever and then you run the risk of melting your parking brake line So heat on The car is not the answer. I did on a different the O6 in preza we were working on I did cut it here kind of long ways with a I Think it was a six inch cutting wheel And then I was able to break it free here and here and kind of pull them out But it was it was time-consuming as well It's just yeah, this is just difficult So I think the best way is to dismantle everything take it up on your bench using a Sozo cut it here Right Cut it right here in between you see you have a little bit of room like probably unlike maybe more than eight for sure of an inch Make sure you're cutting straight. You don't want to cut into the knuckle. See I did a tiny bit here and a little bit On the control itself, but you know just little surface scratch is nothing major So you I mean that's the part of the bushing there still so you got rubber metal rubber and then that Fat thing and then the bolt Yeah So cut it then I once I got Big enough cut I actually started using a Grinder because it was faster and easier on the bench. Okay, so I was actually like this cutting it no heat Once this was out. I had to use heat on here and here and using this air hammer This beast this this guy snap on This guy is a beast No slowly drove it out and it's finally loose. I Mean, this was a long struggle guys so now I Can actually put this whole piece in the press press it out with the bolt, you know same thing on this and Pressing the new ones clean all this up obviously Clean the rust inside there Lubricated probably use some anti-seize or something And the whole bolt so this doesn't happen again. Hopefully so either way So this is the the less damaging way, right? You cut it here and drive it out if you got tools obviously if you got no tools Well, then good luck. Give it to somebody that has tools. That's it. I don't know take it as a tip. I Guess it's just what I went through You know you could maybe just Get away, you know, if you don't have one of these I realize these are expensive I got this one this guy used a while back stuff like the solzo or the grinder. They're not really expensive So you can maybe cut it in several places or maybe just cut it here like I did and then try to with a an air gun try to Turn the nut once you heat this once this is out and you heat this up that bushing will melt and you're gonna be able to Turn this control arm and the bolt will stay in place So this way, you know The bushing is not holding on to the bolt anymore It will kind of spin the bushing will spin with the bolt and then maybe you can with a gun you can try and turn it Heating heat it up and then turn it instead of driving it out with a an air hammer That that will probably work as well. I said to take the subframe Off with the crossmember. There's three different names for that Thing that holds on to the rear diff These are gonna go back on the control arms and I do have aluminum aluminum bushings for the for the subframe Yep four of those All right, so next video See you later