RichP
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- Effort, Pa
darjevon said:STFU dude, I considered that method, but...
1. I wanted to be able to easily change them again later and I figured that way they would probably freeze up again like they did before. I wanted to set it up with a stud poking down from the top and the nut on the bottom so that if disaster struck and the bolt froze, in future I would be able to use a nut splitter to break the nut in half. I wish Jeep could have set it up like this in the first place...
2. I'm really bad at drill and tap, I always manage to get the bolt to go in all crooked.
3. I heard elsewhere that the nut is small and won't stand up to a drill and tap, however now I know firsthand that this is not true.
:gonnablow
I'm always suprised that jeep did did not put the damn plugs back there to begin with, they got plugs everywhere else. That includes an access hole for the fuel pump too, they did it in dodges, why not jeeps.
As for the drill n tap, yea, it can be a PIA, I just had to do two on sat on my TJ, the two big ones in the frame to tie the new bumper into. Took me about 45 min per hole but at least I got the old bolts out, went next size up on those.