So tonight I managed to remove my oil cooler from the car, with lots of dremeling the bolt and lots of penetrant the top fitting came off rather easily, and all the threads are intact, I was able to remove the bolt while it was still in the car, the bottom one was not as cooperative, I fought with it for a while, then I sawed the hose and pulled the cooler out of the car, once on the floor I dremeled the bolt for a while longer, then applied a steady pressure of the wrench, it began turning, no crunching sounds, so I assumed good to go and steadily and slowly kept removing it.....upon removal I found that about 80% of the threads are flat/not there, they are inside the bolt I took off. There's still a couple threads at the back of the fitting, and about 1.5 threads right at the tip, but thats all, the rest are mashed down....is this done for? I really don't want to spend $470 (that I don't have) on a new one as I doubt I'd find one any better here in a MI scrap yard.... Is it possbile to have these repaired? Could a machine shop weld on a new fitting to the cooler or rethread it successfully? Also, I am having a hard time figuring out how to remove the rest of the hoses, unbolting them from the oil filter housing....HOW? I can't reach in there, what is the best method for getting those off?? I was following some stuff I'd found in the searches but its not helping too much.......

The other problem I have is how to get the motor mounts out, I'm not seeing a way to get a socket into the inner bolts that hold the mount to the frame......there's not any room.....

Also I noticed that my 17 year old radiator is seeping a little bit of coolant around the seam at the top so I will probably have to start looking for a new one of those too.....not good times right now.

Any help with this stuff?

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