Out damn bolts!!! Need ideas
#1
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NC
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Year: 1987
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Out damn bolts!!! Need ideas
I'm replacing the heater core on my 1987 XJ and I'm removing the 5 bolts that hold in the heater/ac module to the firewall. I have removed 3 but 2 of them are just rotate but don't come out.
The ones in question are the top one located behind the evaporator and the one located all the way to the right almost behind the engine. I think these are both the kinds with screw ends on both sides.
I spent probably 30-45 minutes trying to ratchet these off but they just keep going around but not coming out.
Any tips? Thanks!
The ones in question are the top one located behind the evaporator and the one located all the way to the right almost behind the engine. I think these are both the kinds with screw ends on both sides.
I spent probably 30-45 minutes trying to ratchet these off but they just keep going around but not coming out.
Any tips? Thanks!
#2
Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Oceanside C.A
Posts: 116
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Year: 1992 Laredo
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 inline 6
It's prolly cross threaded.. I'm cheap so I would prolly try to keep pressure on the backside of it with a tool and try to unscrew it.. there's prolly a tool that makes getting the cross threaded bolts out but like I said I'm cheap haha.
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: middleburg fl
Posts: 860
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Year: 1998
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
well you could do like i did and forget the one behind the engine was still on there and just keep pulling till it rips out than cover the hole with metal tape
#4
CF Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Oroville, CA
Posts: 12,367
Likes: 0
Received 19 Likes
on
18 Posts
Year: 1995
Model: Grand Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 with all of the noise and clatter
Grab the tip of the stud with some visegrips and loosen the nut with an open end wrench. Be careful not to bugger up the threads on the stud, once you get the nut to break loose it should just spin right off.
#5
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NC
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Year: 1987
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Problem is that some are stud and bolt and others are a bolt with a stud on each side and it is one piece. So I could break a nut loose or be trying in vain to break apart a one-piece unit.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
96Co
Stock XJ Cherokee Tech. All XJ Non-modified/stock questions go here
12
01-10-2024 06:17 AM
BrownXJ
Stock XJ Cherokee Tech. All XJ Non-modified/stock questions go here
9
09-04-2015 04:20 PM
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)