Barrman
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The weather has finally cooled off enough for me to get serious about doing the paint work on my M35. The cab on the 1952 Gasser is rusted real bad and not worth saving. So is the one on my 1953 Gasser. So was the dropside truck cab that came in the back of one of the trucks. The dropside cab is now fodder for Sermis to make a 4 door out of. Kwai found a Gasser cab in California some months back and it is completely rust free. That is what is gonig on my truck.
When the cab showed up I noticed 5 of the 6 front fender bolts had been torched off. No problem I thought, I will just weld a nut on there and pull them on out. Well, now that I have the cab entirely stripped I did a final count. 19 brocken off bolts in all. 6 of which I did pulling off the doors, windshield and drivers seat. The rest are fender mounts, cab mounts or transmission tunnel cover bolts.
I don't mind broken bolts if all it means is drill and tap or weld and turn. But, on most of them the captured nut is loose too. The easy way seems to be to grind/cut/torch the captured nut off and just flat weld in a new one. But, that seems kind of wrong to me. I really don't want to spend days making the captured nut cages either. Any ideas?
Thanks.
When the cab showed up I noticed 5 of the 6 front fender bolts had been torched off. No problem I thought, I will just weld a nut on there and pull them on out. Well, now that I have the cab entirely stripped I did a final count. 19 brocken off bolts in all. 6 of which I did pulling off the doors, windshield and drivers seat. The rest are fender mounts, cab mounts or transmission tunnel cover bolts.
I don't mind broken bolts if all it means is drill and tap or weld and turn. But, on most of them the captured nut is loose too. The easy way seems to be to grind/cut/torch the captured nut off and just flat weld in a new one. But, that seems kind of wrong to me. I really don't want to spend days making the captured nut cages either. Any ideas?
Thanks.