>>>From: "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@utk.edu>
>>>Subject: stripped threads...
>>>I am trying to re-hang the leaf springs on the passenger side of my '75
>>>Midget. Instead of using nuts, they decided to thread the body,
>>>conveniently up inside a structure piece, so you can see it through a
>>>little hole but not really get to it. And one of them is stripped (on
>>>the end by the gas tank, under the trunk).
Mine was exactly the same when I did it about a year back. What we did was
to enlarge that little hole that you can look through, and then drop a bolt
down through the stripped captive nut. Pop a nut on the underside, and hold
the bolt head with a socket wrench.
Seemed to work fine for me, but I was surprised (to say the least) that this
design "feature" seems to be guaranteed to leave you stuck at some point....
Andy
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