So I had a terrible creaking from inside the car which I initially thought was coming from passenger seat side rail, but after having someone else drive I realised it was coming from underneath the car and due to no interior carpets/ deadening etc. sounded like inside. So anyway got underside and found a number of sub frame bolts loose. Got round to tightening them up and all was going well until the KW anti roll bar bracket-to-subframe bolts. Sheared one of the heads off leaving the shaft still in the subframe with the top of the shaft poking out (still tight) through the nut on the bracket.
After looking it seems that most aftermarket ARB brackets have captive nuts and the nuts are welded to the bracket. Mine however must have come loose as can spin.
Does anyone know if KW brackets comes with captive nuts?
Also my ARB is red, I can’t find any other ARB by KW that isn’t yellow...
Is the subframe body threaded at all, or does it just grip the captive nut?
At the moment I have two plans – a) cut a grove into the shaft of the bolt poking through the nut with a junior hacksaw blade and use a flat head to wind it down and out through the nut
b) Release the remaining bracket bolt, release the ARB from the drop link and lift the ARB up and out of the subframe giving me more access to the exposed shaft.
The creaking however is gone
Will get some pictures later