Hi pat201,

isn't the blue stuff just some loctite that MB puts already on the screws? When my MB partsguy was out of the screws for my rear swaybar bushings, he gave me regular bolts and told me to use loctite, as that was the blue stuff on those MB bolts (for 70 cents a piece, I believe)

As bjcsc says: can you screw them back in, as you say "almost stripped"?

regards

Reinhard Kreutzer