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Re: Skid plate mount nut broke free

Check out this link for Jacknut

http://www.marshallsales.com/product...llnut_demo.htm

You should be able to look in the phonebook of any medium sized
city and find a bolt and nut supplier, and be able to get this or a
similiar product
Tookie - Denham Springs, LA
88YJ,"Money Hungry"
4" lift, 33" TSLs, Lock-Rights
PosiLock, 4.10s

Re: Skid plate mount nut broke free

Dude, I feel your pain.

I had the same exact thing happen on my 97 TJ when I was doing my SYE
conversion. I went the expensive route and paid a shop to cut the
frame and weld a new one in. :(

It wouldn't have bothered me so much to try something else, or even go
without for a while to think over my options, but it was one of the
corner locations, on the leading edge of the skid plate. I imagine
that bolt gets the most stress in a lot of situations...

Michael White <michael12@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<7jUBb.7447$_r6.3914@newsread1.news.pas.earth link.net>...
> Hi all,
>
> While dropping the skid plate on my '82 Scrambler, one of the nuts inside of
> the frame broke free of what I'm assuming is its weld. Fortunately, it
> broke free after I had the bolt about half way out and I was able to hack
> saw the bolt in half and drop the skid plate.
>
> Is there any way to fix this other that having someone cut open the frame
> and weld in a new nut? Say, some sort of grade 5 butterfly nut? The hole
> is larger than I'd like to tap (I'd say 9/16" or 5/8"). Right now I'm
> running with five bolts rather than six.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Re: Skid plate mount nut broke free

Tookie (tookie_nospam@cox.net) wrote on Thursday 11 December 2003 01:21 pm:

> Check out this link for Jacknut
>
> http://www.marshallsales.com/product...llnut_demo.htm
>
> You should be able to look in the phonebook of any medium sized
> city and find a bolt and nut supplier, and be able to get this or a
> similiar product
> Tookie - Denham Springs, LA
> 88YJ,"Money Hungry"
> 4" lift, 33" TSLs, Lock-Rights
> PosiLock, 4.10s

Won't be strong enough. They're brass or plastic. Needs to be grade 5
steel minimum.

Thanks anyway.
--
Michael White "To protect people from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891

Re: Skid plate mount nut broke free

Thomas,

I don't think that will work for this application, especially if all you do
is pound something into a hole. The CJ skid plate supports the
transmission. I think it needs to be grade 5 steel or harder. This is a
significant amount force exerted on these bolts.

But that does give me another idea - if I can find a drill bit long enough
to reach through to the other side of the frame, I can drill a hole on the
top side of the frame. I can then stick a long bolt through both holes and
put a nut on the top side.

I'll have to look into it...
--
Michael White "To protect people from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891

ThomasW (thomas@OBVIOUSrubicons.com) wrote on Thursday 11 December 2003
09:20 am:

> Nutsert. You basically drill out your hole to the proper diam. for the
> nutsert and then pound in the 'nut' part into the hole. You then have a
> 'nut' without reaching the backside of the frame. Should be just fine
> for a skid plate. Here is a link:
>
>
<http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=nutsert&page=1&offset=0&result _url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26amp%3BrequestId%3D8 e71a6b1eaf54c90%26amp%3BclickedItemRank%3D1%26amp% 3BuserQuery%3Dnutsert%26amp%3BclickedItemURN%3Dhtt p%253A%252F%252Fwww.aboveboardelectronics.com%252F Avdel%252Fblind%252Fnutsert.htm%26amp%3Binvocation Type%3D-%26amp%3BfromPage%3DNSCPIndex&remove_url=http%3A%2 F%2Fwww.aboveboardelectronics.com%2FAvdel%2Fblind% 2Fnutsert.htm>
>
> Greg wrote:
>> And what is a nutset? Since I am also running with 5 out of 6 on my CJ
>>
>> "twaldron" <twaldron@sbcOBVIOUSglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:kxUBb.8$357.3353665@newssvr30.news.prodigy.co m...
>>
>>>What about a nutsert?
>>>
>>>Michael White wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>While dropping the skid plate on my '82 Scrambler, one of the nuts
>>
>> inside of
>>
>>>>the frame broke free of what I'm assuming is its weld. Fortunately, it
>>>>broke free after I had the bolt about half way out and I was able to
>>
>> hack
>>
>>>>saw the bolt in half and drop the skid plate.
>>>>
>>>>Is there any way to fix this other that having someone cut open the
>>
>> frame
>>
>>>>and weld in a new nut? Say, some sort of grade 5 butterfly nut? The
>>
>> hole
>>
>>>>is larger than I'd like to tap (I'd say 9/16" or 5/8"). Right now I'm
>>>>running with five bolts rather than six.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>--
>>>_______________________________________________ ____________
>>>tw
>>>03 TJ Rubicon
>>>01 XJ Sport