nutzert to nutzert swap

Kejtar · Jun 6, 2005

OK, I'm building my roof rack and I am planning to replace the stock nutzerts with some better ones. Only problem that I have is how to remove old ones without dropping the pieces inside (I'd drop the headliner but that would mean removing the cage and that's too much work).
Anyways I have a 97 and I know those nutzerts pull out as I pulled one of them out half way in the 98 when a branch lifted my stock rack. Any ideas how to pull them out one by one without doing any damage to the sheetmetal?

ChuckD · Jun 6, 2005

You have the latter XJ, aren't your OEM nutzerts metal and not rubber?

Kejtar · Jun 6, 2005

ChuckD said:
You have the latter XJ, aren't your OEM nutzerts metal and not rubber?

I think they are, but I know the still pull out: I had a branch grab the crossbar on my other jeep and pull up and pull the nutzert half way out. It looked like they were only slightly expanded during install unlike some of the other ones I've seen.
I was thinking about putting a bolt into one and prying on it, but I don't know what that's going to do to the roof. Other thing I was considering was a slide hammer (kind of simulating the branch that pulled them out a bit in the other jeep)

Lawn Cher' · Jun 6, 2005

You could drill them out, that would leave the sheetmetal intact. Just figure out what size the original hole is. Or use a replacement that requires a bigger hole and just drill them out to that size.

Kejtar · Jun 6, 2005

Lawn Cher' said:
You could drill them out, that would leave the sheetmetal intact. Just figure out what size the original hole is. Or use a replacement that requires a bigger hole and just drill them out to that size.

Drilling them out is the easy way out, but then I will have 12 little pieces rolling around in the headliner and everytime they meet they will rattle...

ChuckD · Jun 6, 2005

Get a shop vac and suck them out. BTW, I didn't have an OEM rack and I drilled out all my holes, there is nothing rattling above my headliner. Drill them out and don't worry about it.

Kejtar · Jun 6, 2005

ChuckD said:
Get a shop vac and suck them out. BTW, I didn't have an OEM rack and I drilled out all my holes, there is nothing rattling above my headliner. Drill them out and don't worry about it.

Oh I'm not worried about the metal shavings rattling, I was more concerned that the bottom parts of the nutzerts would be rattling

Good idea on the shopvac: that might work out

Bent · Jun 6, 2005

They will not roll around on the head liner. Trust me. One of the triggers for my O.C.D. is rattles. When I drilled mine out I left them where they fell. Besides, they never make it to the head liner. They fall into a boxed in sheet metal area at the edge of the roof.

Really,

TIM

Kejtar said:
Drilling them out is the easy way out, but then I will have 12 little pieces rolling around in the headliner and everytime they meet they will rattle...

RichP · Jun 6, 2005

Kejtar said:
Drilling them out is the easy way out, but then I will have 12 little pieces rolling around in the headliner and everytime they meet they will rattle...

Rattle from those little nutcerts ? Hmmm, what size tires are your running again

red91 · Jun 6, 2005

Remi....

It's not the nutzerts rattling around...Its the loose parts in your head.

Kejtar · Jun 6, 2005

red91inWA said:
Remi....

It's not the nutzerts rattling around...Its the loose parts in your head.

that' can't be it: I keep them suspended in a fairly thick solution made of hops and barley

Kejtar · Jun 6, 2005

RichP said:
Rattle from those little nutcerts ? Hmmm, what size tires are your running again

I guess not big enough

RedBluff · Jun 6, 2005

Take some pictures if you can.
I've been following your rack posts and would love to see your progress.

Thank you.
RBB

Kejtar · Jun 6, 2005

RedBluffBoy said:
Take some pictures if you can.
I've been following your rack posts and would love to see your progress.

Thank you.
RBB

Have you seen those. I posted them in the other thread and that's al I have done so far. Now I am going to put in some thinnger spreaders (3: 1 at each end and 1 in the middle). I also have to finish up the side rails (I need to bend up the pieces that it will attach to though as I angled them at too steep of an angle downwards).

RedBluff · Jun 6, 2005

Thanks

Bent · Jun 7, 2005

Kejtar said:
I guess not big enough

Poor Guy, It must really be tough.:dunno:

NHextremeXJ · Jun 7, 2005

How about using easy-outs. :dunno:

Kejtar · Jun 7, 2005

NHextremeXJ said:
How about using easy-outs. :dunno:

That's a thought, but since they are not threaded into the sheet metal I doubt it would work.

Bent · Jun 7, 2005

Lawn Cher' said:
You could drill them out, that would leave the sheetmetal intact. Just figure out what size the original hole is. Or use a replacement that requires a bigger hole and just drill them out to that size.

The hole needed to remove them will have to be larger than the original. When drilling them out, once the exposed lip is seperated from the threaded (and expanded) lower barrel, enlarge the holes for the new inserts. Be very careful not to oversize of mis-shape the new holes. Doing so is BAD. After enlarging the holes us a magnetic tip on a flexible wand to fish the potentialy rattling boogers out.

Tim

RichP · Jun 7, 2005

Use the nutzert tool in reverse and stretch them back out.

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