[HardcoreZ28]

Bill.....regarding your second method. I'm assuming the x cut was to weaken the bolt and then you just broke the head off? How did you get the clip and so forth out after? I would think it would still be too large to pull out of the bolt hole.
I thought about doing something similar. Just grinding the whole head off of the bolt so I could pull the spring eye bucket down....then trying to find a way to remove the rest.
Let me know about that removing the remains part as I'll probably give your idea a try.