Need help with lower front shock mount

[65swb45]

Resurrection time

I just snapped off the lower passenger side shock mount nut, flush to the shock eyelet - the shock is off and I'm drilling it out, tapping it and putting a bolt in there. What a pain in the ass.

I fully expect to snap the driver side lower shock mount - I always get hosed at what should be an easy job.

If you cut off part of the nut right up against the threads, the relief in pressure combined with the heat should release it.

 

[Northbound]

If you cut off part of the nut right up against the threads, the relief in pressure combined with the heat should release it.

No soup.

There was no cutting to do - that was flush when it came off.

I could've welded a nut on to the post, heated it and tried to back it out, which in hindsight is what I should have done, but I've already drilled it and will tap it tomorrow and hope it works for a few weeks until I cut the entire deal off and have a friend weld another back on.

 

[65swb45]

The other one. The one that wasn't busted when you originally posted.

And I am posting for posterity, assuming others will find this thread one day.

Cheers

 

[Dynosoar]

Drill a small hole through the stud and run a cotter pin through it like the earlier models.

Dyno

 

[Northbound]

It's done, after the tap broke off inside the lower shock mount - so I hammered the s*** out of it with a cold chisel and drove it all the way back and smashed it and tapped again, then hacksawed any tiny bit of old post so the new bolt would sit flush to the mount and was done, but what a pain in the cock.

Heat first on all those next time. I'll be knocking out the rears this week and the first thing that happens is heat.