I have used a trolly jack on a bolt that wont budge - use the longet bar you have, rest it on the jack and gently raise - the weight of the car does the trick normally.

When I was regularly doing maestro/montego CV bolts I had access to a 5ft 3/4" bar - that did the trick.

Is it the join between the back box and mid or the mid and cat ?

If they are siezed solid then with a good 6 point socket and a breaker bar they should just shear off with brute force .If you use a 12 point socket you are much more likley to round the bolts off.

Back box and mid can be to cramped to ket a grinder in there.

Yeah it's the back box to mid.

Might just visit the garage again which really pi$$es me off as its pi$$ing money up the wall.

Just bunged you some dosh to help get it sorted at a fitters pal .... All the best.


EDIT - And by the way - some of the posts on this thread have had me in stitches - mars bar as a wrench .... Superb.

Cheers for 'that dan! And yeah, I have to make light of things, otherwise my psychiatrist would be cross!

Maybe he regrets saying, "you need a hobby, to relax".

When its all sorted, you will look back at these threads and have a good laugh.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Hahahahahahaa... I gave up, it's in the garage lol. Still doing the cv joint myself when I get it back.

I never bother undoing the hub nut! It's easyer to pop out the lower ball joint and track rod joint. That will give enough room to pop out the shaft from the Cv joint to do the boot. I saw a colleague undo the upper arms on a civic with the same result but not used that way myself. The exhaust bolts are 10mm and should as already stated snap off so new bolts can be used. Stainless is the best bet there ;)

Well its back from the garage with the bolt loosened and the exhaust correctly fitted now. Much happier and looking forward to tackling the cv joint now the bolt has been loosened!

Exhaust sounds similar to my Powerflow one on the mk2 180.

Excellent news mate hope it didn't hit the wallet to hard