August 16th 2004

Tonight I finished removing drivers #4 bolt, I had to go get some more reciprocating saw blades.  After that I began working on drivers #2.  This was not much fun but I eventually got it by cutting the lock washer out with a dremel and reshaping the head.  Then I was finally able to tap the lock washer out with a chisel and then use a bolt extractor to get it out.  Took me about an hour as it is close quarters.  The first picture below shows what left of the bolt.

I then removed the rear bumpers, this was very easy as I just put a new bolt set in about a month ago.  My rear lights wiring harness looked pretty rough, didn't want it getting any rougher, took it off and moved it aside.  In the process I broke off an old nasty rusted stud off of every tail light assembly.  Damn.

Take a look at the crack in the body near the rear plate and the wonderful valence repair job. 

When I looked at the headlights, I noticed the two assemblies don't match.  The drivers side looks like it is made for this front end.  The passenger side looks highly rigged.