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Hello everyone
Fitting rock sliders, and have undone the front body mounts no problem, nut came off fine, however gone to undo the third mount point in front of rear wheel and instead of the nut coming off it seems like it’s winding the whole bolt out, can’t see how to get at this bolt from inside floor pan, thinking if I just keep winding it out it will cause a problem?. Any suggestions welcome
thanks
I think they are all captive bolts. There should be a reduced area on the open end that you should be able to grip with self locking pliers and use a ring spanner or drive through socket to get the nut.
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As Lambert says, the bolt should be captive. If it is just spinning, that means the mount has rusted badly enough that the bolt is no longer attached. The mount may not look too bad from the outside now but you will probably need to do some surgery in the next year or so.
Yes I thought about that or possibly just cutting the nut off and replacing with two new nuts,
I could unwind the whole bolt using the nut but then it went tight and didn’t want to force it so tightened it back up against rubber mount and it tightened back up fine.
I might try some heat on nut too failing that I’ll cut it off
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