Murphy and his Damn Law

 It is inevitable that any time something needs to be removed and is held down by 3 or more bolts - one of them will not cooperate.  There must be a law describing this phenomena.  

While anxiously awating the engine's return from the machine shop - I decided to begin stripping the interior of the Bronco.  Seats, rollbar, carpet...  It would seem that 42 years of rust can be quite troublesome, take for example the T50 seatbelt bolt below - I promptly sheared this thing while wrenching with a breaker bar (I was on my second T50 socket having already broken one)

I sprayed the hell out of it with every kind of lubricant I could get my hands on break it free - even put a torch to it to heat it - all kinds of tricks.  Drilled a hole to use an EZ out before I found out that they are way old school and you can't even find them in a store. 

I glanced over in the shop and spotted my welder - now or never.  I got a grade 8 bolt that fit into the hole I had drilled and did my very first weld - not bad

Then I sheared it off - at least the weld held 

so I ground to mess flat and welded a big nut to the top - that held too - however I sheared off the T50 flush with the body - crap!

In the end - used a dremel to fully center the offcenter hole I had started, then increased bit size till I hit the threads and then picked out the remaining bits of metal.  

Here is what it looks like stripped down