Cottontail
Three-De Off-Road
- Location
- Nashville, TN
Here is my dilemma...
I snapped off 2 bolt heads on the cross member while trying to install my RE control arm drop bracket. I tried to air hammer the weld nut out so I could fish a new bolt through, but the weld nut is not coming loose.
I cut a small hole in the frame rail to look in from outside to see if I could knock it loose from that way, but that is the reinforced part of the frame and inside it was packed with a second channel and a bunch of black gooey tarry type stuff. I can't even access the part of the frame channel where the weld nut is.
So, here is my solution. I'll get the brace in place under the cross member, tighten up the one good bolt on each side, then drill a pilot hole though the cross member, brace, and frame, and secure it with a self tapping screw and locktite.
Any thoughts? Better solutions?
I snapped off 2 bolt heads on the cross member while trying to install my RE control arm drop bracket. I tried to air hammer the weld nut out so I could fish a new bolt through, but the weld nut is not coming loose.
I cut a small hole in the frame rail to look in from outside to see if I could knock it loose from that way, but that is the reinforced part of the frame and inside it was packed with a second channel and a bunch of black gooey tarry type stuff. I can't even access the part of the frame channel where the weld nut is.
So, here is my solution. I'll get the brace in place under the cross member, tighten up the one good bolt on each side, then drill a pilot hole though the cross member, brace, and frame, and secure it with a self tapping screw and locktite.
Any thoughts? Better solutions?