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As anyone who works on cars will tell you, bolts located under the car (exhaust) must be heated in order to loosen them. Lubricant spray won't do it alone. As for the stripped one. Heat it up, use vise grips to remove it, jam a smaller socket on it, or get one of those special sockets that connect to stripped heads.