Originally Posted by razorboy

I wanted to follow up on how I managed with this for anyone in the future.

So as it turns out, the hole wasn't stripped out or anything, it was the bolt itself that was stripped in the center of its threads. That's why it kept spinning and wouldn't come up.

What I have to do was get a pry-bar between the head of the bolt and the frame and while holding a 10lb electric impact in the other, had to nail at it slowly while keeping constant pressure on the head of the bolt. Man, my arms were numb by the time I was finished. I was doing this on my back in the driveway too.

So anyway, I bought the appropriate tap size to redo the threads but that was almost impossible. The threads were so beat to hell that there was no way to get the tap to start cleanly. I ended up getting about half way through the threaded portion before the tap started getting really tight and I was worried I might snap it off inside the hole. I'd be done then.

Found a bolt that was shorter than the original with the same diameter and thread pitch and got it in there tight.

Didn't do a damn thing to stop the creaking and groaning in the front end.....lol. Well at least it's the way it's supposed to be - more-or-less.

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