OK here’s a few pics. On the battery side, you can see the top of what’s left after I cut off the head of the bolt.
The bolt shaft is stuck inside the crush tube that sits inside the end of the bumper bracket tube. Here’s what the bumper bracket tube with its crush tube looks like, along with the bolt from driver’s side, and the weld nut that came off the passenger side.
On the bottom you can see where I used a hole saw to access where the square weld nut would have been attached to the bottom of the reinforcement inside the rail, and you can see the bolt threads sticking down through the reinforcement. Note there’s already a hole in the bottom of the rail so the weld nut could be accessed for assembly and presumably the repair procedure would be to drill the additional hole through the radiator crossmember panel like I did.
There’s also a pic of the left side looking inside the rail and you can see the reinforcement that the bolt goes through to sandwich the crush tube on the bumper bracket tube.
That’s a lot of words so hopefully you can see what’s going with the pics. I might need to do a sketch at some point but need to turn on the PC to do it properly. Not tonight.
