Rear Shocks question

[housecall55 at yahoo.com (Cris Carpenter)]

We used to get the bolts to loosen up in the sleeves by heating them up real hot with an acetylene torch (you can only heat the exposed ends so it takes a while before the heat gets inside the sleeve), and then rattling them out with an air chisel. The idea is to get the rust holding the bolt to the sleeve so hot that it disintegrates, but that technique requires those tools. Another alternative is to bend the tangs of the lower supports out to allow some access and cutting the bolt off both sides with a metal cutting sawzall.
   
  Cris
   
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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:15:57 +0000
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Subject: Rear Shocks question
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O.K.....so I got me some KYB Gas-A-just shocks for the rear and started
on the Passenger side.  I was amazed at how easy it was to replace.
  I'd say it took me 30-40 minutes to replace.  I know that's probably
slow.

Now I tackle the Driver side............4 hrs later and I still haven't
gotten the old sachs shock off.  The issue I'm having is that I was
able to remove the nut, but the bolt won't budge..........any ideas????
  I was thinking about using a dremel and cut off wheels and cut the the
bottom half of the cylinder with the bolt thru it and then cut the bolt
in half and replace.

What have others done??

Karl