Stuck strut nut help

I’m starting to think I might of not loosened the LCA bolts enough. It was loose but not hand loose. How loose did yal go? Loose for me was wrench loose where I could freely spin with a wrench with little to no resistance.

 

I think he needs a ride to work and you were available to take him.

 

Didn’t want to leave the old gal on jackstands all night either.

 

still seized. I lifted it even higher than the first picture and still nothing. I let it soak all night in PB blaster. My only other work around is to remove the whole strut and disassemble it with my rented compressor.
Can I reuse my flange nut with anti-seize?

 

It's actually easier with more load on the shock shaft, take the jack out and leave the truck on jackstands.

 

Make sure you are turn it the right way to loosen...not being an ass, just happens to us all sometimes.

 

That doesn’t look so corroded that it would be fused together. I usually use a crescent wrench to hold the stem with a ratcheting wrench and don’t really have an issue. A possible culprit could be that it was cross threaded at initial install. In which case trying to remove it would be a waste of time since you’re planning on reusing the nut. Dunno. Just spitballing here.

 

Take the whole assembly out, hit it with an impact till it comes part loose, put the assembly back in, continue operation

 

The in-vehicle method is perfectly safe. As for that top nut....if you aren't reusing the struts lock a pair of Vise Grips on to the shaft and put a long wrench on the nut.....long to gain some leverage.

 

Lefty loosey, righty tighty

 

I hope it’s not cross threaded cause that’s the only nut I have to use.
Is the size a M12 1.25?

 

Hopefully you got this off by now. But I had no luck with vice grips or anything else like that on a corroded shock on the rear, but putting an adjustable wrench on the shock stud made a huge difference in grip plus soaking in BP blaster. That was the passenger side. The driver side was fully seized up (or possibly cross threaded from factory, who knows but it was not moving). I cut it off with a hacksaw, more work but almost no vibrations, the nut and bushing was wrecked though in the process. I would look into getting yourself a new nut just in case, they are only a few bucks.

 

No luck but I plan on assembling the strut with some nylock m12 pitch 1.25 and putting them in.