Re: [Amc-list] Jeep XJ Rear Shock Mount Question

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Drill'em out and tap them, then use antisieze on the new bolts!
I just did one on each side of our 97 two weekends ago! 
I've got a bad shoulder and still managed it easily using a cordless drill and some cutting oil on the bit.
Then tap them out to 5/16" ? [I forget the thread].

The design lets the crud up on top and the threads sieze up. Then when you go to change the shocks the little bolts snap off. I was very careful with PB blaster etc; and still broke two. I think it took less time to drill the broken ones out and tap then it took to get the other two out without breaking them off!

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

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From: "Graham, George W (GE Infra, Energy)" <george.graham@xxxxxx>
> Well, its kinda-sorta an AMC.   I picked up a cheap-but-pretty-nice 1999
> Jeep Cherokee to give to my girlfriend's son to drive.    Due to some
> slight rust here and there in weird places, a couple of the rear shock
> upper mount bolts have been sheared off by the PO.    Question is
> (before I start ripping and tearing on the interior bits) if there is
> any access to the upper mount areas from the interior side??   Or am I
> stuck with attacking this from the bottom??
>  
> Appreciate the advice from you Jeepers on the List.
>  
> George Graham
> Newsletter Editor; AMC of Houston
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