jamescronin
Active Member
So after having my rear cross member replaced a few years ago, I have decided to refit the rear mud flaps - this is mainly because we are moving the business up market a bit more and I'm trying to spruce up the landy a bit - new cylinder head to stop the smoke, outside quick respray, alloy wheels, new bumper etc etc (I know that's not the way a 1980's 90 should be but it needs to look the part unfortunately with the customers!)
Anyway there are 3 8mm holes per side in the rear cross member and 3 hols in each mudflap bracket. You obviously cant get to the back of the holes in the cross member to get nuts in, so I was advised by the independent dealer I got the genuine LR flaps from to use encapsulated nuts. I have got hold of a set of M6 (8mm external) Rivinuts in A4SS (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-OFF-M1...857951?hash=item56844d7bdf:g:wIEAAOxy2CZTa07c) but they are next to useless as there is no way they will ever grip enough to all me to get them to swash down.
What do other people use to fix these? I may just revert to using a long gripper and my flexi scope to just put some M8 nuts inside the cross member, but that's going to be very fiddly if not impossible. I'm told that LR use some sort of stud insrt to do it, but I can't find anybody that sells them (and I'm not paying whatever Sturgess will want for them!)
Anyway there are 3 8mm holes per side in the rear cross member and 3 hols in each mudflap bracket. You obviously cant get to the back of the holes in the cross member to get nuts in, so I was advised by the independent dealer I got the genuine LR flaps from to use encapsulated nuts. I have got hold of a set of M6 (8mm external) Rivinuts in A4SS (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-OFF-M1...857951?hash=item56844d7bdf:g:wIEAAOxy2CZTa07c) but they are next to useless as there is no way they will ever grip enough to all me to get them to swash down.
What do other people use to fix these? I may just revert to using a long gripper and my flexi scope to just put some M8 nuts inside the cross member, but that's going to be very fiddly if not impossible. I'm told that LR use some sort of stud insrt to do it, but I can't find anybody that sells them (and I'm not paying whatever Sturgess will want for them!)