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Jeep Wrangler YJ
YJ General Discussion
If your transmission skid plate bolts break, then what?
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<blockquote data-quote="Neil_K B724" data-source="post: 441665" data-attributes="member: 21446"><p>I battled the same thing this weekend for a snapped off bolt I wanted to fix for the rear left side position. Either my dad or the mechanic he took it to did a repair to the front left bolt so I just copied it. I found this thread doing a search for “frame” because I was concerned about how bad the rust is on mine. I pulled off a bump stop easier than plucking an apple from a tree. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😬" title="Grimacing face :grimacing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png" data-shortname=":grimacing:" /></p><p>Anyway, I used a 1/2 X 1 1/2 inch carriage bolt, a 1 inch wide piece of 1/8” thick bar stock 3 inches long, drilled a half inch hole and squared it with a square file. After that and because I was using the same path for the parking brake cable, I threaded some safety wire down the frame and then put the bar stock on the wire followed up with wrapping the safety wire around the carriage bolt threads. Carefully inserted the bar stock and then bolt into the frame and pulled the wire through the hole I was working on. Then after thinking about it some more today, decided to drop by the hardware store to pickup a couple of fender washers and retaining washers so that I wouldn’t push the bolts back up into the frame while trying to reinstall the skid plate. The pictures are kind of after the fact because I made the repair after I read the thread, except for the retainers.</p><p>What I drilled and dug out looks like what used to be some sort of rivet nut.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122679[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122680[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122681[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122682[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122683[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122684[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122685[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122686[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neil_K B724, post: 441665, member: 21446"] I battled the same thing this weekend for a snapped off bolt I wanted to fix for the rear left side position. Either my dad or the mechanic he took it to did a repair to the front left bolt so I just copied it. I found this thread doing a search for “frame” because I was concerned about how bad the rust is on mine. I pulled off a bump stop easier than plucking an apple from a tree. 😬 Anyway, I used a 1/2 X 1 1/2 inch carriage bolt, a 1 inch wide piece of 1/8” thick bar stock 3 inches long, drilled a half inch hole and squared it with a square file. After that and because I was using the same path for the parking brake cable, I threaded some safety wire down the frame and then put the bar stock on the wire followed up with wrapping the safety wire around the carriage bolt threads. Carefully inserted the bar stock and then bolt into the frame and pulled the wire through the hole I was working on. Then after thinking about it some more today, decided to drop by the hardware store to pickup a couple of fender washers and retaining washers so that I wouldn’t push the bolts back up into the frame while trying to reinstall the skid plate. The pictures are kind of after the fact because I made the repair after I read the thread, except for the retainers. What I drilled and dug out looks like what used to be some sort of rivet nut. [ATTACH=full]122679[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]122680[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]122681[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]122682[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]122683[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]122684[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]122685[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]122686[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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If your transmission skid plate bolts break, then what?
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