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Michigan | Bolts are out! Tried a few of the methods suggested before we found what worked the best. What we ended up doing was to heat the bolt from the inside untill the entire bolt was glowing. Then we would put an ice cold EZ out into the glowing bolt and could usually get about a 1/2 turn on the bolt before the EZ out got hot, expanded, and caused the bolt to not turn as well. Maybe I was a chicken, but the last thing I was going to do was wrench on the EZ out to hard and have it break off inside the bolt.
One bolt was short enough that it only took a couple turns to remove, the other two were long enough, and turning hard enough, that once we got them out a bit I welded nuts on to the studs and turned them out. Just need a tap to chase the threads and hopefully repair one hole which stripped during removal. All and all went ok. We took our time and spend about 4 hrs getting the 3 bolts out.
Now the fun part of reassembling..
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