I had just ordered my lift the other day and its gonna be here this friday. so to prepare i soaked all the bolts and nuts and tried to free them up so when i do my lift it will be a little easier. but as i was doing this i couldn't get the leaf spring bolt that goes through the unibody free? a guy i work with said i could heat up the bolt and leaf spring bushing and that should work, but he wasn't 100% sure on that. This is my first lift i will be doing, and i am getting full leaf packs so im not worried about ruining the old bushings. If this doesn't work what else can i do? If any has any thoughts or experience it would be very helpfull. thanks in advance

 

Mine came loose with a fair amount of brute force. I had to get a breaker bar to make it happen but it finaly came loose.

 

i had a breaker bar and a 2.5ft pipe and it wouldn't move, also i didnt want it to break because i dont have the lift yet

 

well I'm going through the same thing but I just cut a triangular shape out of the pocket where the nut is cause I've had the nut break free. Once you cut out the little pocket you can heat up the nut and it will break free but then you have to worry about the bolt getting stuck in the bushing also. I'm in the process of getting ready to loosen them up alittle and cut them out and put new bolts in it.