The lower upright bolt is most likely rusted in place. And impact gun will be your best bet to get it loose. What we found works best is the break the nut loose with your trusty breaker bar. Then grab a 2 or 3 foot long cheater pipe (a thick walled peice of tube or pipe you can slide over the end of your breaker bar for more leverage) and move your breaker bar to the head of the bolt. Using the cheater pipe / breaker bar combo get you and a fat friend to pull on the pipe and eventually the bolt will begin to spin.
At this point grab the air gun. Continue to use the air gun to spin the bolt for about 15 minutes alternating directions. This will polish off the majority of the rust hold it in palce.
Now is when you will discover that the bolt is inevidably bent. Place a block of wood over the threaded end of the bolt and use a bfh to gently whack the hell out of it until the bolt comes free.
This will be a pain in the ass. You will more than likely need to replace the bolt as it is probably bent. You will kick cat, cuss the dog and be in general quite irritable after comming in contact with this bolt. You have been warned.
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