Recent content by nin773

Thanks! Yeah, when I finally heard that damn thing crack free it was amazing! I'll bet I spent close to $200 on parts and tools over the last year to get this job done.

The lip of that bolt is all hacked up from the "been a mechanic for 40 years" guy. He messed with it for about an hour one day and accomplished nothing other than busting up the bolt and putting some nice marks on the housing.

TLDR version: JB Weld Steel Stik saved my ass, job is finally done. I'm back and...hell froze over and a miracle happened...at the same time LOL! Since my brother still wasn't comfortable with his welding skills I decided to give it one more shot yesterday. At one point I had read about some...

Ha! at this point if I had a plasma cutter the whole jeep would be in half!!!

these channel locks were actually 21", here is the link: https://www.harborfreight.com/21-in-s-jaw-quick-adjust-pliers-wrench-59837.html It was a real nice idea if that damn motor mount wasn't there!

That's why I asked about getting the housing off ...didn't really SEEM like there would be enough room to get it off even with the head of the bolt gone. I texted my brother a couple pics and asked about welding a nut on it. I'll definitely try that route if possible. Honestly, I figured if...

Nice! I will be SO HAPPY once that $*&&@!!! housing is off and I can get that bolt out! My brother definitely uses a mig welder, not even sure if he has a stick. That's good info, and I definitely have some of those tall nuts you mentioned. I have time, I've been fighting it for a year LOL!

Once the head is off, would you be able to wrangle the housing off? If not, I'm not seeing how I could get a wrench on the bolt. My brother does some welding so I might see if sometime he could come over to do it. I kind of asked him about it before but he wasn't sure about the limited area...

I'm past the point of no return with what used to be a "torx" pattern in the head of the bolt. Last attempt this morning confirmed that since I used a go thru ratchet, brand new T60, wedge between the unibody and ratchet and about a 3 foot pipe on the ratchet handle. Smacked with hammer...no...

Well, I'm really hoping someone has an idea of how to approach this mess of a situation at this point. I tried a T60 and the head is definitely rounded out/useless. I bought a huge pair of channel locks in hopes of getting on the edge of the bolt, but due to the motor mount I could not even...