I broke my breaker bar today trying to loosen one of the bolts on the trailing arm. 190k+ miles in the salt belt has made those nuts hard to remove. Discussing it with my accomplice, we are thinking about trying to repair the problem without actually removing (all of) the panhard bar. We talked about sawzalling off the end + 6 inches, straightening it, welding on some angle iron with an overhang, then slipping a piece of rod into the middle, and welding where it was previously cut.

What do you all think of that idea? The trailing arms don't look too bent to me- I mean to take a yardstick to them at some point.