I've been fighting with a bolt on my front suspension for the last couple of hours, and finally decided to come in the house, get on the computer, and see if anybody else had any ideas I haven't thought of yet. The bolt in question is one of the two that hold the passenger side anti-sway bar mounting bracket to the frame on my 1983 Nissan truck. The bolt stripped when I tried to remove it. I'm guessing that the last person who screwed the bolt in either cross-threaded it or overtorqued it. At any rate, it's stripped and when I try to unscrew it, it turns freely, but won't unscrew from the hole. I've tried taking the other bolt out of the bracket and putting downwards pressure (the bolt screws up into the frame from underneath) on the bracket with a screwdriver while trying to unscrew the bolt, but no luck there. The steering linkage and front suspension components are all in the same area, so there is no room to get a hacksaw in there and cut the bolt head off, which would be the simplest way to get the bracket off the frame. I thought about using a cold chisel, but there's no room to swing a hammer, either. Anybody out there have any ideas?


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