Gerdo

I replaced my Front LCA Bump Stops with some Poly ones. After wheeling this week I get lots of rubbing on the inside/top of my fenders. Also when I come in contact with the bump stops it is a lot harder than the rubber ones(no I'm not jumping it). I'm going to put the stock rubber stops back on. I did loose one of the polys. The issue that I'm having is that the one that came off popped off the bolt that was molded inside of it. Now the bolt has the stock nut that was welded onto it, isn't any more, just spins. There aren't any holes to get a wrench on the nut. The others are still there but they also spin like the nuts have popped loose.

Any thoughts on how to get to the nuts?

Anyone else ever have this problem?

Nelsonmd

Can you post a pic of this? I am confused as to what your situation is.

brian2sun

Can you get any meat on the bolt to grab it with a needle nose channel locks and pull on it to put pressure on the nut? I have had more than a few of the stock welded nuts pop off on my truck too. Not those ones, but the driver's seat, the ones my BudBuilt skids bolt to at the LCAs, and a few others. The guy in the factory who's job it was to tack nuts on was smoking dope I think haha. I'm not with my truck right now, but if all else fails, can you drill a hole under it to get to it?

Gerdo

I'm thinking that I'm going to have to drill holes in the LCAs. Even if I could get the bolt/nuts to separate the nuts will just fall into the LCAs.

brian2sun

Yeah, then you'd probably hear them rattle around too. Drilling is probably the only way. Bummer, but at least you can weld good! I still need to weld the nut that popped off when I was installing my Buds this weekend. I just wedged a screwdriver against it to get it tight, but it'll be an issue every time I take the skid off until I reweld it.