So dumb ass… er… I mean engineer at Mazda decided to use a caputured nut on the other end of the bolt used to attach the shock to the lower control arm. If you are lucky that nut wont break loose from it’s rusted tack welds when you crank on the bolt with your breaker bar.
After cursing the aforementioned engineer’s maternal lineage for several hours as we tried every way under the sun to get a wrench on that cursed nut. We finally hit upon the idea of just drilling a hole on the oppsite side of the control arm and using a socket on a long extention and a second break bar to hold the nut in place while we cranked on the bolt.
This works like a champ and is much much better that hacking up the bottom of your control arm to get a wrench on there. (This was the most common suggeston we found across the miata forums and definatly not something we’d reccomend.)
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