Okay, so I'm relying upon your expertise for an answer here. I am starting my first project by removing the body parts first. However, as I quickly found out the bolts for the fenders as well as the running boards have round heads. Now, please don't laugh, but there has to be an easy way of removing the nut and bolt but I don't know of any tool that will hold a round head steady enough to allow for a rusted nut to be taken off. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I had the same question about a week on so ago, look up "rounded rusted bolts" in the forum and there should be an answer in there for you. I welded nuts to the top of mine and it worked out well. but if you don't have a welder then you could try to "carefully" grind the head off of the bolt or drill it out. either way you go it takes some time.

 

I used a grinder on mine; VERY SLOW but it works.

 

Thanks guys, Proud48 I recall your prior post but just glanced over it thinking it was about stripped/rounded bolt heads... Oh well, I guess there is nothing easy or quick with these things.

 

Start a gallary; Post some pics so we know what your project is. I also used a 4" cut off disc and cut off some of the nuts from the under side of my running boards. If that helps. Nothing is fast about disasembly on these old trucks. And make sure you take LOTS of pics. To help when you put it back together. Good Luck;

 

Ran down to Home Depot and purchased several "bolt out" bits only to get them home and they were all too small. Anyway, I was able to get a good hold of the bolt with my vise-grips and the running board ones came right off with very little effort. I will post some pictures soon as they are on my work computer.

 

I am soooo thankful for the PO of my truck. He did all that for me.

 

in the past i have used 2 small pipe wrench to start then a pair of visegrips. even use this method on rusted brake lines.

 

some times (if you can hold the head) it's quicker just to tighten them down till they snap off.

john

 

I used my plasma cutter to remove the rusted carriage bolts, and it worked with no damage to the underlying sheet metal. I just cut them off flush. Any bit that I could get them loose gave additional clearance for cutting off the nuts or heads.