UNCLE!!! Need advice about installing CSP beam braces

Bolts and their nuts nearly always use the same size socket.

X2 Justinh.  Jack, it would be really weird if they were a different size than the nuts.  Weirder things have happened, tho'

Jack...if you can get at the bolt heads, even with an extension, what is stopping you from just trying a few different size sockets to make the fit on the head of the bolts ?

Are we missing something here ?

Hi David---well I got one of the nuts off---what a supreme PITA!!  I did what you suggested

and afrter getting the nuts cleaned up so a socket would fit, I tried a couple of different ones with an extension and got the socket oin the nut and it was a good fit so the socket stayed on and allowed me to get under the car and remove that underneath nut.  Then I starrted on the second one but I know I look like a monkey screwing a football trying to get a socket oner that second bolt head.  I hope I can get that second nut off tomorrow.

I can't imagine the challenge installing a Suby yourself.  Howdy to Francine!

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Jack....a monkey screwing a football with your face on it ? Heysus...I needed a good laugh and I'll go to sleep tonight thinking about you and a slippery football...........

Jack...The very first time I heard that phrase was at P.I. in '57...and I'm sure that's where you picked it up too!!!

Certainly the most descriptive image of contorted physical fumbling that ever existed!!

...Aaaa, I can hear my DI's sing song cadence being counted now

You made me laugh out loud, Carl.  That's exactly right. USMC, Paris Island summer, 1957, Platoon 152.  The other priceless one that you know and love has got to be "needledick, the bug #ucker" -- right?

Back to the garage.

That musta been when you guys gained your love of sand gnats, right??  Gotta love sand gnats in the summer at Parris I.

Jack, seriously........you need a small-ish school kid from the neighborhood to hold that ratchet in place on top, while you get at the nuts from below.  He'll be much better at contorting himself into the footwell and can simply hold the ratchet handle against the footwall while you do the real work from below.

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Asking schoolchildren to hold his tool while he gets his nut off could get a little awkward.

Gordon--God's torture for Marines--sandgnats.  I imagine you were stung by a few in your days at Beaufort.

Well, I got this job finished and all buttoned back up.  If I had to do it again, I could handle that job in :45 counting cleaning up after myself.

I just got back from a test drive and only got up to 60mph on side roads.  As far as a report, I can't see hardly any difference from the pre-beam brace ride.  I do believe that the ride of this car with the camber compensator and front sway bar.

The car always drove like it was on rails and was super smooth with smooth steering---It stays straight with zero pulling or any jerking of the steering wheel like some other cars I have driven so there must have not been much room for improvement.  Maybe I'll see more mileage out of the front tires ---but that's never been a problem anyway.

I'm certain that I have more mods and improvements to this VS than almost any other car and definitly more money in it---like 2 new Vintage Speedsters worth (!!)so I believe I have reached the point of diminishing returns ---or any returns for that matter.

But it is a true gas it up, start it up, and hit the road car that I know will get me where I'm going without needing any "unscheduled maintenance" as Jake calls it.