Shearin' off the bolts

Farley dropped off a piece of aluminum for me to rebuild the bed of the FJ40 with. It's a pretty nice chunk of metal. It should connect the bed of the truck to the rear cross member and hide a lot of rust. To put this piece on I need to take everything off the back end of the truck like the bumpers, trailer hitch, bottom door latches etc. So I got out the wrench and selected the appropriate socket, a proceeded to shear off almost every bolt on the back of the truck. For those of you who don't know what the pleasure of a sheared bolt is, you should really find the most important bolt in your life and knock the head clean off. The mental exercise that follows is a real character builder. How do I get them out? Beats me, I will probably end up either drilling them out or finding some sweet tool that will solve my problem.

In the picture to the right the silver dots are the shafts of the bolts that held on the bumpers on........just without the heads. Oh well onwards and upwards this will be a long journey and I can't get discouraged now.


Mood: 6
Optimism: 7
Bolt mutilation: 10