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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 7:14 pm

Team

Last bolt of my towbar install is spin spin spinning and wont tighten up.

Any ideas for a fix?? The thread must be mangled...

atari4x4

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 7:38 pm

just superglue it in

is the thread rooted or has the captive nut come unstuck?

get it time-serted/heli-coiled

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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 7:53 pm

nah thread looks munched.

ill just smash a bigger bolt in there!!!

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:10 pm

that's cool, don't expect me to follow you with your trailer on or recover you with it. :thefinger:

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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:15 pm

hahaha!!!! your perfection syndrome has some what rubbed off on me. lol

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:26 pm

Can you just get a longer bolt and stick a nyloc nut on it.

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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:30 pm

its into the chassis. I dont know if you have access to the bolt once its in the thread.?????

buzbox

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:37 pm

What Shep said.. You can overkill it for peace of mind,

Nylon lock nut, Spring washer & Loctite

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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:46 pm

buzbox wrote:

What Shep said.. You can overkill it for peace of mind,

Nylon lock nut, Spring washer & Loctite

can you actually get to it to put a nut on it as its into the chassis????

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:51 pm

If access is hard then weld fencing wire to the nut and poke it into any chassis hole ya can find and feed it to the right spot.

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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:52 pm

now thats thinking!!!

you done this before lol...

alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:01 pm

just looked on a uk vit thread and this is common for the threads to rust out and eat out when bolted. Most guys have drilled right through chassis and wack long bolts with nylock nut on.

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:07 pm

the poms are dodgy though.

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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:15 pm

dodgy good or dodgy bad??

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:19 pm

is there a good kind of dodgy?

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:31 pm

You have lot to learn grass hopper.

You can fit a spanner in there holding the nut while you tighten the bolt

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:33 pm

are you sure you can do it on a SQ625... if they're anything like a SV they have an enclosed chassis rail, it's not a open box framed sierra.

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:40 pm

Wellllll that's a different kettle of pigeons then.

Drill the bolt hole and re tap the thread to fit a slightly larger bolt.

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:43 pm

you have a lot to learn grasshopper :thefinger:

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:46 pm

If I actually bothered to view his profile picture, I would be on the same book and not suggest what I did on my golf buggy of a sierra.

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:52 pm

wrong again grasshopper, profile picture shows a SE416V, vehicle in question is the one in the vehicle details which states SQ625.

OP is lacking details in his thread, i'll give you that one... but he's a noob so can be forgiven. :wink:

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:54 pm

shep wrote:

If access is hard then weld fencing wire to the nut and poke it into any chassis hole ya can find and feed it to the right spot.

This....someone had used this trick on burntwood.

atari4x4 wrote:

the poms are dodgy though.

says the guy who had a tow bar built by a pom :thefinger:

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:56 pm

britvit wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

the poms are dodgy though.

says the guy who had a tow bar built by a pom :thefinger:

was made in outback australia so that counteracts the pommyness.

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alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:11 pm

wow....I go to make a coffee and come back to this!!!!

Ill just get the thread doctor in!!!

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:32 pm

^ This thread is beyond repair

sent you a PM

alexxx

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:33 pm

go it thanks for all the help yoyos!!!

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:54 pm

britvit wrote:

^ This thread is beyond repair

sent you a PM

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Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:04 pm

dont encourage him gus

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