Spooner Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Ok, so much to my neighbours amusement I spent 1.5 half hours fitting my new (to me) side bars to the 110 in the snow today. All went well once I'd found some suitable bolts for the brackets to the sill sides. One problem I have which I need advice on is the following. One of the bolts that holds one of the 'legs' of the side step bracket onto the chassis rail has lost it's 'captive' nut. By this I mean that the bit inside the chassis rail that the bolt threads into has come away from the rail and fallen inside never to be seen again. What's the best solution?? I suppose I could drill right through to the otherside of the rail and use a long bolt to hold the bracket to the rail... I'm not sure if the 'captive' nuts was welded inside the chassis during fabrication or can I use a 'spreader' bolt that will open up inside the rail once I insert it and start to do up the bolt... Hopefully someone can help me out here cheers Gavin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happyoldgit Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Gavin, 2p's worth of rivnut will do the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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