[TR] Fender bolts

J.C. Hassall jhassall at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 11:26:58 MDT 2015


As a Combat Engineer buddy used to say, there's no problem which can't be fixed with a suitable application of high explosive.

jim 

Fat-thumbed from my iPhone

> On Jun 5, 2015, at 12:56 PM, David Friedlander <forzion7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I restored my TR6 from "the brink" some years ago and never 
> had issues like this. These three bolts must be removable because many 
> of you have done it.  :- ) But these are more challenge than I have encountered 
> before.... I managed to squirt some penetrant up to the back of the middle 
> and upper bolts. The head on the bottom one is rounded and the back end 
> of that bolt is a rusted stem. To add insult to injury, these bolts aren't 
> even accessible to a cut-off wheel! 
> 
> As always, I'll just keep trying...
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Bob Labuz <yellowtr at adelphia.net> wrote:
>> Yes, A box wrench should do the trick, but they may be rusted as others have mentioned.
>> 
>> I replaced those 3 caged nuts with speed nuts as used on the 4 and above cars for fender (wing) attachment.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
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