R Cannon

Im swapping a lot of parts from my 96 to my new 95. im in the process of switching ouy my trunk door. Has anyone founda trick or easier way? They havent snapped, YET.

posjeepxj

50% acetone %50 ATF (tranny fluid). proven better than PB blaster. soak everything for a few days. Still guna break stuff but it helps.

after awhile every bolt on your cherokee will be new.

93gc40

Sorry, bolt breaking is more common to you people that live in rust prone areas. A little shot of PB Blaster always works for me. But I have near zero rust to deal with.

wapozzi

i haven had one bold break or had to use pb blaster on any bolt on my 92

R Cannon

Consider yourself lucky about no bolts breaking. I have lots of luck. All bad. Does anyone know what threads are in my 95 liftgate hinges? I have a feeling Im going to be drilling and tapping.

Cherokee

its gotten to the point where I cant expect a single bolt to come off clean. if it does then its a big surprise! Just broke every bolt on my front clip, had to drill them all out.

use some PB blaster though, it does help sometimes.

Russian

mine has S.B.S. also... Snapped Bolt Syndrome.. i live in fl and even had the ziebart rust proof treatment done and it looks worse than other older cherokees in the jy.. lol i just dont get it.

R Cannon

If I have to snap them off like every thing ive worked on, should I drill and tap for another, standard bolt? what size? What thread is the original?

Cherokee

i mean, does it really matter?

if youre drilling it out and retapping a thread, then just make it whatever you want it to be.

its going to be bigger than the original bolt threads.

TheJerm

Yea if i look at a bolt wrong on my MI heap, a chunk of rust falls and 4 other bolts brake lol

razor02097

busting bolts is a fact of life if you work on older vehicles. Soaking the bolt in penetrating oil helps. Also whacking the head of the bolt a few times help. Loosening and tightening while taking your time prevents the bolt from breaking while extracting.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do. It snaps, it snaps. Have a good drill, tap and die set handy along with a hardware collection.

95Cherokee

It's my experience that EVERYTHING breaks on a Cherokee, not just the bolts.

Bustedback

I feel for anybody that lives in the rust belt, you guys have it rough.

miglia-spyder

YES!

07Negative

Here's where bolts don't break on a cherokee. Just leave it alone. They never break that way. But since we can't. They are going to break.
If you don't want to worry about them rusting out on ya. You could use titanium bolts? Insanely expensive and the bolts will be worth more then the jeep itself. But problem solved.
People say older cars. But even if you have a early model 90's cherokee. That's really not old of a car. I'd expect someone to say old car if it were 70's or something. Relative I suppose.