So i had to drop the exhaust on my gt to do some welding and removed 3 of the 4 bolts on the muffler hangers successfully. but on the passenger side lower bolt i accidentally tore the head right off the bolt. i noticed it was rusted on a little bit and figured hell, ill just weld a nut onto the other side and thread it the rest of the way through. tried that. cooled the nut & bolt after welding then tried to wrench it out and sheared the nut right off, welds did not break, the bolt did. now i have nothing to work with and the bolt is to hard to use a Grabit bit on it. my last option is to weld that side of the hanger to the frame but i really dont want to. is there another way i can get that damn bolt out?

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-03' GT Limited Edition-
-01' se 3.1 slow edition lol-

1 of 2 ways i can think of

weld a nuck tot he broken bolt if enough is there


drill it out and retap the hole

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

thats the thing, i did weld a nut on the back sideof the bolt which was the only threads left and sheared the bolt off again. originally i was going to use 2 nuts on it and wrench on the first nut and use the 2nd as a stop nut but there was not enough threads on the bolt left, thats when i went to welding it. ive tried drilling and unless im an idiot, the bolt is to hard for the drill bit to penetrate.

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-01' se 3.1 slow edition lol-

it is going to be hard and you will proably eat up a couple drill bits but that seems to be the only option unless you want to weld on a new hanger

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

yeah only reason i dont want to weld the hanger on is because eventually when i put on my full exhaust, its going to be a little more difficult to take the old exhaust off.

-- Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:07 pm --

done. cut the head off a bolt, took the threaded part and welded it to the frame and bolted the hanger right too it. ka chow!

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-03' GT Limited Edition-
-01' se 3.1 slow edition lol-

Make your own stud, good thinking!

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

I am my own stud...

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