On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:25 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
> Those 3 long bolts are supposed to push out once the nuts are removed.
> If rusted enough this can be nearly impossible. This is another
> improvement with the solid lower control arm front suspension. Those 3
> bolts don't exist on the 85+ solid arms.
>
> Mark
>

To the OP.

Considering you have already snapped off a nut and bolt head, if you
can't get the lower ball joint adaptors out and bolt remanents out of
these pieces, give serious consideration to swapping in the lower
control arms, steering knuckles etc. from a post '85.

Sure wish I did that, though my stash of used "old school" ('85) parts
worked out fine as a solution to my, uh, mistakes!

Neil.

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