After folding my tow bar back against the fuel tank guard during my epic fail at the August SE weekener, I finally done the last job required in removing the twisted tow bar. Got the 3 snapped off bolts out of their respective captive nuts.
Started last Sunday with the drilling out at an angle due to restricted access. Managed to get a hardened nail into a drilled hole to get a bit of leverage. Would have worked had the remnants of the bolt not been bent, so attempted to twist it all the way in rather than out. Hit a snag when leverage wasn't an option as the nail had to come out. Plan B was to have my first attempt at using the stick welder that I bought last year. The idea being to weld a thin bolt onto the stud and twist it all the way through. Gave the welding a go but unfortunately didn't get a result, so got the white flag out and went and banged on my mates door down the round. He had a look and reckoned the arc welder was a no no and decided he could do the necessary with his Mig welder. Well impressed with his method, he was able to add to the stud length by building it up with molten welding wire. That gave enough matter to weld a 19mm nut to. Result, the broken stud was able to be twisted out. Then moved over to the broken studs on the drivers side. Same method with building up with molten Mig wire to weld a 19mm nut to. This stud put up more of a fight and needed another two weld ups with new nuts before we got the stud out. Had to add weld around the captive nut to get heat into the nut to compensate the heat the bolt had been given. Required quite a bit of doing up and undoing with a good soaking of WD40 to fight the rust build up, but we got there in the end.
and a godod chap to talk too knows his stuff and they'll be here monday
lpg now working 
