spleenharvester
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Hi all, really hope you can help, I can't find any other threads on this and it's going to be a really costly repair otherwise.
I haven't got my own picture to hand at the mo but my question relates to these posts on my 2011 Fiat 500 1.2 8v:
I tried to put new nuts onto these and I don't know what happened - I think they must have been out of spec or something - but they absolutely destroyed 2 of the 3 posts, and currently only one has a nut on it. On the other two threaded posts, one snapped while trying to remove the stuck nut, and I can't get a new nut onto it at all. It just won't even begin to thread. On the second one, the top 1cm or so is stripped and there's a bulge below that, as if it's been pushed downwards. This whole section seems to be welded on so if I can't fix these threads I am screwed.
Has anyone got any idea how to even begin to fix these? It seems like most people have bolts here instead of threaded posts so I can't find any other info about this problem anywhere at all. Only thing I can think of doing is taking an angle grinder to the top of the posts and hoping there's enough useable thread below that point to get a nut onto.
Thanks
I haven't got my own picture to hand at the mo but my question relates to these posts on my 2011 Fiat 500 1.2 8v:
I tried to put new nuts onto these and I don't know what happened - I think they must have been out of spec or something - but they absolutely destroyed 2 of the 3 posts, and currently only one has a nut on it. On the other two threaded posts, one snapped while trying to remove the stuck nut, and I can't get a new nut onto it at all. It just won't even begin to thread. On the second one, the top 1cm or so is stripped and there's a bulge below that, as if it's been pushed downwards. This whole section seems to be welded on so if I can't fix these threads I am screwed.
Has anyone got any idea how to even begin to fix these? It seems like most people have bolts here instead of threaded posts so I can't find any other info about this problem anywhere at all. Only thing I can think of doing is taking an angle grinder to the top of the posts and hoping there's enough useable thread below that point to get a nut onto.
Thanks