It has been brought to my attention that I may have left a wrong impression with my above post: just to make things clear, there was really no dual meaning in my prior post about cheating, and I didn't mean it to come accross that way. I just didn't think it good to be reefing on a cheater bar, shaking the entire TT, when it was directly above me sitting on jack stands with no room for error.
i.e. using a cheating bar = 'cheating'
jacked = using a jack stand
GP, I used WD40 on one of the bolts (the sandblasting job a couple years ago took care of the rust issues). But if your bolts are that rusted, and you plan on over tightening the bolts as a means to snap them for removal, you don't need to worry about using WD40.
Well, I'm hoping that I can just unbolt them after a weeks treatment of WD-40. The tighten/snap'em is the back up plan.
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