"Bandit" (2bandit)
09/21/2013 at 14:15 • Filed to: emma
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"Bandit" (2bandit)
09/21/2013 at 14:15 • Filed to: emma | 0
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I go to replace my body bushings and I find some dumbass who owned the car before me broke the cage of the caged nut, now I can't back the bolt out. The cage is bent and cracked. Now I need a welder (which I don't have). Fuck this. Note: I did not cause this, it was like this when I started the process.
KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb
> Bandit
09/21/2013 at 14:18 |
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My bike's previous owner neglected it enough that a piston seized a couple months into ownership. Consider yourself lucky ;)
f86sabre
> Bandit
09/21/2013 at 14:29 |
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Try a blind bolt. WE use them in aerospace. Many require special guns for installation, but you may find some that will work with hand tools. Not to be confused with pop rivets.
http://www.newmantools.com/lindapter/hb.h…
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Bandit
09/21/2013 at 14:30 |
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oof that's rough, sucks to hear dude.
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> Bandit
09/21/2013 at 14:32 |
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Formula4speed told you not to do this, but did you listen? No, you did not. Woe unto you for even attempting it.
"STOP
DO NOT DO THIS WITHOUT LOOKING UP HOW TO AND GETTING RIGHT WITH GOD
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC MODS ON A SECOND GEN.
The nut that the body bolts screws into on a second gen is not welded to the floor pan—it instead is held inside a sheet metal "cage" that is IN BETWEEN THE FLOOR PAN LAYERS. If you break this cage, you are cutting the floor pan open. After 40 years of rusting, the risk of breaking the cage is HUGE.
What you wanna do:
soak the bolts in pbr for like, half a day. or a day. or a week. the longer you can bear to, the better.
Get a really big torque wrench. Put a section of pipe on that torque wrench to gain mechanical advantage. put a pipe on that pipe. THIS IS NOT BECAUSE THE BOLTS ARE HARD TO TURN. DO NOT PUSH WITH ANY FORCE AT ALL ON YOUR DOUBLE PIPE TORQUE WRENCH. This is so you can put in the absolute minimum amount of torque and still turn the bolt.
Turn the bolt by inches. milimeters. micrometers. Turn it like you're diffusing a bomb because you pretty much are. The correct procedure is pray, breathe, push slightly, listen for pop, pray again, repeat.
Good luck, and my god have mercy on your soul. I've successfully not broken mine, but almost everyone does and then has to cry a lot."
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Bandit
> Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
09/21/2013 at 14:36 |
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I didn't cause this! It was like this when I got it. I noticed it was broken before I even started putting a socket wrench together.
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TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
09/21/2013 at 14:37 |
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"I told you so" Serioulsy? If it was already broken there isn't much he could do about it now is there?
The Swedish Bandit
> Bandit
09/21/2013 at 15:59 |
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OK wait!, so if I've understood this right, cut of the broken cage and remove the old bushing. Then insert the new bushing and fabricate a new cage (or something similar) and then weld it into place (I base this on the logic that a man has to get a welder sooner or later). See!, no problemo!
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Bandit
> The Swedish Bandit
09/21/2013 at 16:12 |
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I just broke the one at the end of the drivers side frame rail. Looks like I will have to cut open my floor. I'm pissed. I doused that thing in PB blaster and WD40 for days!
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The Swedish Bandit
> Bandit
09/21/2013 at 16:21 |
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Oh!, well that truly sucks then, my condolences. I am trying to think of something good that can come out of this, but I really can't :(
But just a thought; are you sure you can't drill the pieces of the rail out? Something similar to that happend to me when I was removing the rear bumper on mine. One of the bolts that held it broke on the inside and I couldn't get it out. But after about 1 hour of constant drilling I was able to brake it down into molecules, without destroying the threads.
lone_liberal
> Bandit
09/21/2013 at 17:35 |
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Amen brother! Some former owner of my Camaro a) installed the wrong motor mounts and since the bolt holes didn't line up only had one bolt in them b) installed air shocks instead of replacing the leaf springs so now the upper shock mounts are all fucked up c) installed a B&M shifter and in doing so hacked up the floor pan to an unbelievable level and d) just did all around shitty work on everything he touched. Maybe it has something to do with being second gen F-cars and the kind of people who owned those kind of cars at one time.