Like so many others...my fender flares faded from blue to a marbled
gray, so I decided to remove, sand and paint them. What sweet fun!
Any advice from all you Jeep pros (I'm a newcomer) about hardware to
use if I've lost about half of the plastic square "nuts"? Cannot find
them behind the wheel well plastic. Of course the bolts that were
screwed into inserts....half of those are frozen in the spinning
inserts. Has anyone simply tried drilling out the inserts and using a
larger bolt/fastener? Or is there a way to stabilize the insert to
prevent spinning so the same bolt can be reused? Thanks for your
help!

 

Dude - Somewhere out there on the net is a video of a fella who
just hit them with some heat from a heat gun & they came out
looking just like new. I thought I had it in my favorites but can't
seam to find it now.

L8r - Jersey



"Kristie ---97 Wrangler" <klcdvm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:69e9c30c.0402051912.44195efd@posting.google.c om...
> Like so many others...my fender flares faded from blue to a marbled
> gray, so I decided to remove, sand and paint them. What sweet fun!
> Any advice from all you Jeep pros (I'm a newcomer) about hardware to
> use if I've lost about half of the plastic square "nuts"? Cannot find
> them behind the wheel well plastic. Of course the bolts that were
> screwed into inserts....half of those are frozen in the spinning
> inserts. Has anyone simply tried drilling out the inserts and using a
> larger bolt/fastener? Or is there a way to stabilize the insert to
> prevent spinning so the same bolt can be reused? Thanks for your
> help!

 

Dude - Somewhere out there on the net is a video of a fella who
just hit them with some heat from a heat gun & they came out
looking just like new. I thought I had it in my favorites but can't
seam to find it now.

L8r - Jersey



"Kristie ---97 Wrangler" <klcdvm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:69e9c30c.0402051912.44195efd@posting.google.c om...
> Like so many others...my fender flares faded from blue to a marbled
> gray, so I decided to remove, sand and paint them. What sweet fun!
> Any advice from all you Jeep pros (I'm a newcomer) about hardware to
> use if I've lost about half of the plastic square "nuts"? Cannot find
> them behind the wheel well plastic. Of course the bolts that were
> screwed into inserts....half of those are frozen in the spinning
> inserts. Has anyone simply tried drilling out the inserts and using a
> larger bolt/fastener? Or is there a way to stabilize the insert to
> prevent spinning so the same bolt can be reused? Thanks for your
> help!

 

Dude - Somewhere out there on the net is a video of a fella who
just hit them with some heat from a heat gun & they came out
looking just like new. I thought I had it in my favorites but can't
seam to find it now.

L8r - Jersey



"Kristie ---97 Wrangler" <klcdvm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:69e9c30c.0402051912.44195efd@posting.google.c om...
> Like so many others...my fender flares faded from blue to a marbled
> gray, so I decided to remove, sand and paint them. What sweet fun!
> Any advice from all you Jeep pros (I'm a newcomer) about hardware to
> use if I've lost about half of the plastic square "nuts"? Cannot find
> them behind the wheel well plastic. Of course the bolts that were
> screwed into inserts....half of those are frozen in the spinning
> inserts. Has anyone simply tried drilling out the inserts and using a
> larger bolt/fastener? Or is there a way to stabilize the insert to
> prevent spinning so the same bolt can be reused? Thanks for your
> help!

 

Jersey wrote:
> Dude - Somewhere out there on the net is a video of a fella who
> just hit them with some heat from a heat gun & they came out
> looking just like new. I thought I had it in my favorites but can't
> seam to find it now.
>
> L8r - Jersey

They can look pretty good painted. I wouldn't use a heat gun on them
while they're still mounted, you'd stand a good chance of softening the
paint. Hell I managed to turn some paint into goo just lifting the
Islander edition stickers off a set of used half doors. They're getting
painted anyway but just goes to show how easy it is to soften the paint.

As for the original question, M6 (6mm) 1" stainless steel bolts nuts and
fender washers will mount the flares back up. Those plastic fasteners
are a pain in the ***, I just dremeled through them on my YJ.

--
Simon
"I may be wrong, but I'm not uncertain." -- Robert A. Heinlein

 

Jersey wrote:
> Dude - Somewhere out there on the net is a video of a fella who
> just hit them with some heat from a heat gun & they came out
> looking just like new. I thought I had it in my favorites but can't
> seam to find it now.
>
> L8r - Jersey

They can look pretty good painted. I wouldn't use a heat gun on them
while they're still mounted, you'd stand a good chance of softening the
paint. Hell I managed to turn some paint into goo just lifting the
Islander edition stickers off a set of used half doors. They're getting
painted anyway but just goes to show how easy it is to soften the paint.

As for the original question, M6 (6mm) 1" stainless steel bolts nuts and
fender washers will mount the flares back up. Those plastic fasteners
are a pain in the ***, I just dremeled through them on my YJ.

--
Simon
"I may be wrong, but I'm not uncertain." -- Robert A. Heinlein

 

Jersey wrote:
> Dude - Somewhere out there on the net is a video of a fella who
> just hit them with some heat from a heat gun & they came out
> looking just like new. I thought I had it in my favorites but can't
> seam to find it now.
>
> L8r - Jersey

They can look pretty good painted. I wouldn't use a heat gun on them
while they're still mounted, you'd stand a good chance of softening the
paint. Hell I managed to turn some paint into goo just lifting the
Islander edition stickers off a set of used half doors. They're getting
painted anyway but just goes to show how easy it is to soften the paint.

As for the original question, M6 (6mm) 1" stainless steel bolts nuts and
fender washers will mount the flares back up. Those plastic fasteners
are a pain in the ***, I just dremeled through them on my YJ.

--
Simon
"I may be wrong, but I'm not uncertain." -- Robert A. Heinlein