ROBinGa
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- 2003 Explorer XLT 4x4 4.6
I am trying to remove the bolt that attaches the strut to the lower control arm on drivers side. I started to loosen it with my 24 mm socket wrench 1/2 size with a 4 foot piece of pipe for leverage. The first pull on the nut to start it made a loud pop then it started to move ever so slightly. But what happens is when I move the bolt head with my socket and pipe the full amount I can until I run out of room at the fender, then it springs my ratchet back instead of the ratchet being able to reset and grab again. I cannot get the bolt head to loosen. I can't get anything on the nut head and it does have the tab attached to the nut still. The other thing is the tab is in the position so that it would help to tighten the nut. The nut and tab tries to spins while I try to remove bolt but it needs to rotate 180 degrees to be able to touch the lower control arm to stop moving. I have tried to remove also with my air impact tool which is from Lowes so not heavy duty mechanic grade. It just clunks away and won't loosen the bolt either. I can't figure why it seems to be spring loaded. Any idea what's happening here and preventing the bolt from loosening?