Stripped Bolts

I'm confused. If bolts are stripped, they'll be easy to remove. Just pull as you turn. Then all you'll have to do is fix the threads.

Perhaps he means the bolt heads are rounded through his own efforts to get the bolts out. If that's the case and there's enough room, those spring loaded self-adjusting open ended spanners can grip a rounded bolt head no problem. In fact they grip so well they'll chew the head off if it doesn't turn. It may also be worth using heat for a while before starting.

My understanding of your problem is that the nuts on the studs turn without coming off. Correct? If so, get hold of them with moles and put a lever of some sort under the mole and turn the latter anticlockwise putting pressure to the lever to force the nut to come off its thread.

Rob Graham

"Mike G" mumbled:

Or MIG a nut onto the end. You can often get a MIG torch into the tiniest of spaces.

Still no idea what a Chevy Corsica is....perhaps it's the one the Mafia drive around in.

Nah, it's the four door version of the Chevy Beretta, and had a sister car on the Pontiac line - the "Tempest". all built on the L-Body:

Gareth mumbled:

That went right over my head!

Oooh, it's not pretty, is it.