I was changing the rear shocks on my 98 and the upper bolts broke off! All 4. Am i left drilling them out?

 

The upper bolts pretty much always break.

There are a few options for fixing it.

a) You can take a hammer and punch or air hammer (preferred) and knock em out (nut is spot welded to unibody) and fish in new bolts through an access port about 4 inches to the side of the shock mount. [This is how I do it.]

b) Drill and tap for new bolts

c) Cut holes in floorboard and remove nuts and put new bolts in. [Unnecessary IMO]

Good luck

 

That's what I had to do and wrapped some metal wire around the new bolts to pull them there... was a lot easyer then I thought

 

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Thank you. I bought the kit off if ebay. Didn't want to drill into the floor board. I think it will go good with the lift kit i ordered.

 

x2 for knocking out the spot-welded nuts and fishing new bolts w/ washers into the holes. Worked for me!

 

X3 its what I did too

 

i ordered the ebay brackets waitin for em to come in

 

also im clean up the area and through some piant on it to help reduce and rust issues.

 

I got that kit off of ebay and it works good. I had to trim the passenger side bracket though due to the exhaust hanger.

 

If u can u should post some pics!

 

Welcome to The Broken Shocks Bolts Club!!!!! This is what i did

 

The driver side

 

I just got home on r&r and ima prolly put em on wed