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Advice for stripped bolt - pedal box support bolt in wiper tray

Old 07-14-2012, 10:03 PM
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Default Advice for stripped bolt - pedal box support bolt in wiper tray

Yep. I managed to strip one of the worst possible bolts to strip. It's the upper inboard bolt in the wiper tray.

I'm thinking about cutting the head off with a dremel, but that'll be slow going.

Any other ideas?

The threads of the bolt have stripped, not the head.

Went at it with a dremel for 5 million years. It's out. Looks like at least one of the captive nuts in the pedal box is effed.

Oh well, gotta get some inserts and new bolts tomorrow morning.

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Old 07-15-2012, 07:21 AM
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The P/O appears to have had the same issue with my assembly. He just drilled it all out and put nuts on top of the drilled out nuts. Now that I have it out I'll weld on new nuts.
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I can see he painted yours as well. I was going to paint mine black, as I have a surplus of black bolts, but I think I'm going to go with gray or silver to more closely match the stock "steel" (or steel & rust).

God, I really couldn't imagine trying to keep nuts from spinning on that damn thing.

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