rear lower sturt bar install

anybody have a good how too on this
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It's pretty straightforward. Jack the car up, get it on blocks without getting your body in the smash zone. Take out the two bolts. Take the brackets off of the bar. Put a bolt through the hole in each bracket and put them back in the holes you got them out of. Line up the bolt holes from the bar to the brackets. Put those two bolts back in. Once everything's been tightened up again, rotate the strut bar on its axis so that it is exerting a tightening force on the body, hopefully balancing out the force that pulling the two struts together at the top by your top strut bar.
Should take half an hour. Unless you do what I did. My bolts were rusted in place from salt and stuff. Even using a penetrating lubricant, they remained stuck. Applying massive force with my biggest ratchet, I managed to completely twist them off, leaving a chunk of the bolt stuck in each nut, and those nuts are welded to the body of the car.
For a quick fix, I stuck the bolts back in, and then got made a really big hoseclamp out of two little ones, which I used to hold the bolts in place. I drove it like that for 2000 miles, until I could pay a mechanic with better tools to drill out the stuck chunks and rethread the nuts.
Flunky
PS-Moral to the story is, if those two bolts are really, really hard to turn, and they remain hard to turn after you've sprayed 'em with WD-40, but they move a bit...they are twisting off. Stop!

thanks im just going to take it to the shop my luck with cars always seems to be worst cause secanario:bloated:

Originally posted by LS-EF&93-EG
thanks im just going to take it to the shop my luck with cars always seems to be worst cause secanario:bloated:

worst case seanario......what has happened so far