Hi Bart and Hotrod...home from work and just finished reading up on your posts.
I think what I will do is remove the nuts and lock washers and put on those deformed thread lock nuts and torque everything down to 70. I will drop some red loctite (got some sitting on the shelf) on the threads as well for extra measure. I though about tacking the nuts and bolts together but loctite sounds a lot better, won't have to grind those bolts out if I am ever in a position to do a proper repair and rivet the bracket back to the frame!
I'll be back in a couple days with more progress.
