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#1519021 03/06/06 05:04 AM
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Today I tackled the battle of fixing a spun subframe bolt. I had heard about an access panel for the rear bolts on the interior of the car. I forgot my digicam so I had to use the trusty cell phone! Crappy pic but any pic is worth a thousand words.


Basically I've just took some pics of where it is. First pull back yor carpet & cut up the sound deadening material. then you should see a panel directly below the clutch pedal (mine was the drivers side), it should look like this.


Cut the rubber insulation up & then you will find the "window".


Its up to you on how to do it from there but I drilled some holes then took a jigsaw & ran across the bottom of the slots & bent them up.


I think it is a 21mm but just stick an open ended wrench in there & hold it. I made a mistake when I was reassembling everything & used the boxed end. the bolt goes up so high that you cant get the wrench off, so dont do that. The nut actually sits in a small holder so that you cant remove it. I had to take a punch & break one side of it & slide the nut out of that side.


Then you will have to remove the nut from the big square washer & weld another on. I forgot to snap a pic of this but you get it. Then I reinstalled everything & tack welded the square washer so that hopefully I wont have to do this again soon.

I saw several posts on this but there were no pics. I hope this helps all the other visual people out there, that like to see what they are getting into. This was simple, the only thing you really need is access to a welder. I'm sure that if you had a tap & die set you could probably do that too but I couldn't find mine.


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Very good info , OB1 . Pretty good pics for a camera-phone . Now all you've gotta do is KEEP the pics available , so that this thread doesn't end up with broken links , like so many others on CEG . Those pics will definately help someone in the future (who don't know they need it & should save the pics now ) .


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Originally posted by Buddy Palumbo:
Very good info , OB1 . Pretty good pics for a camera-phone . Now all you've gotta do is KEEP the pics available , so that this thread doesn't end up with broken links , like so many others on CEG . Those pics will definately help someone in the future (who don't know they need it & should save the pics now ) .




What are the symptoms of this "spun nut" or whatever you called it?


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When you are tightening the subframe after having it off for whatever reason the big bolt turs but won't get tight. I don't see this happening unless you're actually working on it. I guess if you took it to a shop & are just trying to figure out if they screwed you, there was bad vibration all the time but when you hit the brakes it gets unnerving.

Buddy if the mods think they are worth it maybe they could host the pics on the site, I don't plan on moving anything but you never know what will happen.


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...damn i wish i knew about that!!!! three of my four spun this summer during the install..i had to cut into the frame of the car to get at them


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For the two at the very front you still have to cut into the body of the car. I had to do this on my SE. It's still in the shop minus engine & tranny so I can snap some pics of this next time i get up that way. I haven't welded up the hole yet b/c I'm not done with the car.


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nice work!

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Good Ole American ingenuity!!!

Well if you ever get caught flood, that will make a great drain hole. Remembering those old Army jeeps/1/4 tons had a removeable cover in about that same area.
Yes I'm an old fart, 1968-70 Jeeps.

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wow, thats definitely a part of the car I had never seen before, thanks for the pics


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