Yea that's exactly what I did lol. I got a little worried reading the post about that. So I took my bolt out and took a coat hanger wire and carefully pushed it thru till I felt it make contact then marked it and compared it to my bolt. Im good I got over a half inch. I bought a bolt kit and it came with the four long bolts all the same length instead of the 2 long and 2 longer ones like came out. They seem to be fine and fit really well and look good too. I tried to clean up my old bolts to save some money but I thought iv spent all this time and money why not spend another 60 bucks and have good new matching hardware? I'm extremely happy with the results and im glad I did.