yea it's a pain in the *** the first time you take it off

buy some PB blaster and soak the nuts and threads in it

 

what if i filed the nut down to a octagon again and used a smaller socket? think that would work?

 

you stripped the nut?

btw it's a hexagon

 

no, don't grind down the nut, buy a new one.

 

dude i stripped the f**k out of a nut or 2...

 

being that you ovbiously don't have good enough tools to remove it take it to a mechanic and ask them to remove the nuts im sure that they could have it done for you in half a hour then you could finish it by yourself

(and it probably won't cost you but 5 bucks to have them do it)

 

brand new tool set like 2 weeks old, and i got air tools set

 

"good enough tools"= mechanic only kinda stuff. The guy I go to has some stuff, I can only dream of one day having

 

dude if you seen my tools set you would cream youself

 

Seriously? no one cares how many tools you have, but if you want to brag, i think i win with my shop full of 50+ years worth of tools...

and to help with your problem, I didn't read your post the first problem, I thought you were just reusing the bolt. In this case, gring down two flat spots on the nut, then soak it with pb blaster, then just use a set of vice grips and utilize elboe grease...