Mazda 323

[JohnOfSheffield]

Ok, so i have my sisters old 91 323 1.6i up and i am starting to remove the bolt for the rear lever arm, i have no clue what is called but it's removal is pretty much impossible.

There is this bolt that goes straight through the real to the front lever arms and it cannot be removed by less than removing the gas tank, i get the bolt out about 20 cm's and it has to go 10 cm's more.

I don't really feel like removing the gas tank so what i am wondering is this.

I'll cut it and smack in a new bolt from the other side, are there any security issues with this and is that the reason why they did that?

I have managed to rebuild pretty much everything and removed and welded the bottom plate, it's not much but it was needed, but this is driving me nuts.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

As you might have guessed i'm not much of a mechanic, i'm more of a welder/fixer/electrical/computer kind of guy, so if you are a Mazda mechanic or have experience from Mazdas i'll take pics of what i'm talking about tomorrow if you don't get what i mean.