lightning
Well-Known Member
Two bolts, let's say ten minutes?
Try two hours
First one of the rivnuts in the crossmember, fortunately the outer one, turned out to be a nut and bolt, so l thought better get a spanner on the back of it.
But my 110 has some sort of aftermarket plastic mud shield over the crossmember, so l had to remove that first.
Oh and the mud flap for better access.
To get the plastic mud shield off l needed to remove the two bolts at
the end of the crossmember as it was sandwiched between the crossmember and rear seat belt support tube.
Of course l didn't have a Torx bit big enough for the bolts and had to borrow one from a neighbour
Then the bolt holding the step on, was about two inches long and rusted, and took all my strength to begin to undo.
The nut kept slipping off the spanner as the bolt came loose, so l
ended up with a socket on it. But the bolt was so long that the driver wouldn't go on the socket.
So it was out with the junior hacksaw. Much sawing later, the bolt was
off.
l fitted the new step (a genuine LR one) then found that there are two tabs that need bending over, so had to take it off again to do that. But l bent them over too much so had to take it off a second time to alter the tabs.
Finally the rear step was on, by this time it was dark and raining, then l had to refit the aftermarket mud shield, mud flap, and various bolts.
The torx bit went missing which caused a further 15 minute delay in tightening the two bolts on the crossmember, eventually l found it between two paving slabs half way down the drive where it had obviously rolled as
soon as l put it down.
Try two hours
First one of the rivnuts in the crossmember, fortunately the outer one, turned out to be a nut and bolt, so l thought better get a spanner on the back of it.
But my 110 has some sort of aftermarket plastic mud shield over the crossmember, so l had to remove that first.
Oh and the mud flap for better access.
To get the plastic mud shield off l needed to remove the two bolts at
the end of the crossmember as it was sandwiched between the crossmember and rear seat belt support tube.
Of course l didn't have a Torx bit big enough for the bolts and had to borrow one from a neighbour
Then the bolt holding the step on, was about two inches long and rusted, and took all my strength to begin to undo.
The nut kept slipping off the spanner as the bolt came loose, so l
ended up with a socket on it. But the bolt was so long that the driver wouldn't go on the socket.
So it was out with the junior hacksaw. Much sawing later, the bolt was
off.
l fitted the new step (a genuine LR one) then found that there are two tabs that need bending over, so had to take it off again to do that. But l bent them over too much so had to take it off a second time to alter the tabs.
Finally the rear step was on, by this time it was dark and raining, then l had to refit the aftermarket mud shield, mud flap, and various bolts.
The torx bit went missing which caused a further 15 minute delay in tightening the two bolts on the crossmember, eventually l found it between two paving slabs half way down the drive where it had obviously rolled as
soon as l put it down.
