Body Mounts

[Joe]

  My HEEP is sitting on jacks in my driveway.  Tried putting a 1" Daystar bodylift on my YJ, sprayed everything down let it sit and then I snapped the first bolt.  I got all but 2 bolts out of the passenger-side, and loosened up the driver-side.    Now the 2 bolts I couldn't get out are loose but only spin,  should I cut them off ?  If I cut will I still be able to tighten the new bolts?  How do I get out the bolt that I broke? 

[cjbroke]

Cut a hole in the floor pan.

[Rick_Bear]

Oh yeah, I remember clearly installing my 2" body lift on my CJ
Only two came out clean, leaving me to cut them out. The welded nut above the channel broke loose. I cut the channel out and replaced it, then used standard hardware. The four in the back and the four under the seats I drilled through the floor pan as cjbroke stated.

[chasm]

Sounds like it's time for the "flame wrench"!

[Joe]

  My plan is to use a sheet metal hole saw, we use them at work for rain gutters.  Thing is I really don't want any more drain holes .  Should I just sawzall the bolts, and drill the new hole, or be a aliitle more deliberate?   Meaning, I don't want to have a bunch of holes to patch.  I have all day tuesday to work on this.

[Rick_Bear]

Where I had to go through the floor pan, I used a torch on the bolt and removed it with minimal enlargement of the hole. Then drilled the hole clean and placed a sizable bolt through. Once drawn tight off went the excessive threads of the bolt. Two of those new bolts also act as anchors for the seat brackets. Yep, killed two birds with one stone I did.