Glad that worked...

I went and bought a bolt extractor set from Home Depot tonight.  I already had a cheap set from Menards but wasn't confident in it.  At first the new bolt extractor set didn't work.  So I grabbed a small drill bit and tried the cheap set (one of the extractors actually sheered off inside the stud, like I said, cheap...).  Neither seemed to work so I drilled the stud further and tried the new set again.  This time it worked!  I was extremely relieved...

I'd gotten a pulley installer from Autozone to finish putting the pulley on (as suggested by March).  I did ask them why they don't just pull the cheap, non-hardened stud installer and instructions before shipping it out.  They responded that the kit comes in bulk from the manufacturer that way (Tuff Stuff).  The rep also said, "I haven't heard of the bolt breaking in the past and it may be due to people not using it".  Whatever...  I just thought they might want to help people in the future...

In order to get the pulley on the power steering pump far enough, I ended up using two 5/8" extra thick washers (they're actually grade 8 washers).  The washers were able to fit around the pump's shaft and allow the installer to keep pushing.  Before figuring out the washers would work, I pretty much stripped the pulley installer's bolt.  If you ask me, the pulley was just poorly designed if that's what it takes to get it on all the way.

After getting all the bolts tightened up on the serpentine brackets, I cleaned up and decided to move on to the engine mounts.  The original engine mounts were steel with rubber.  Most of the rubber was gone or extremely degraded so I decided to get some new ones.  It was between Energy Suspension and Prothane mounts.  I went to Sperry's the other day to pick up my old Quadrajet carb and when I was there I saw some Energy Suspension stuff sitting on the counter.  After seeing that, I decided to go with the Energy Suspension polyurethane mounts (I'd read you couldn't go wrong with either on a few forums).  The mount kit comes with both the transmission and engine mounts.  These were a little more expensive than Prothane and I didn't get the chrome/polished ones.  It was like $60 more for the chrome/polished and you can barely see the things....  The mounts don't come with bolts so I went with ARP bolts.  Pretty much all the bolts on my engine are made by ARP.