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| roadracingtog Member Since: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 97   
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In between the showers today I decided to fit the newly acquired bumperettes to my '09 110. After an hour I gave up. How the hell do you fasten the outer bolts?
They're this style  http://www.roadracingsupporters.com |
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19th Jan 2012 9:42pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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I cheated and used rivnuts
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19th Jan 2012 9:47pm |
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| Dave-H Member Since: 08 Feb 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 1507  
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With bloody great difficulty!!
When i did mine i stuck the nuts inside the rear cross-member before fitting the bumper, using long reach angled pliers and welding wire. Was fiddly as feck though ................. Guns and Landrovers .... anything else is irrelevant. |
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19th Jan 2012 9:49pm |
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| roadracingtog Member Since: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 97
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I'm thinking of reversing the outer ones. http://www.roadracingsupporters.com |
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19th Jan 2012 9:49pm |
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| LR90XS2011 Member Since: 05 Apr 2011 Location: bickenhill Posts: 3664 
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I had a simular problem (different bumperettes) and ran the bolts from the front of the chassis to the rear and then had the nut on the outside, there is a spacer that fits in the rear cross member you need to make sure this is in place its usually held in place by two existing bolts at the outside of the cross member that would hold the LR NAS step if one was fitted if you dont fit this you will crush the cross member as you do the bolts up DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS,
I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy |
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19th Jan 2012 9:52pm |
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| roadracingtog Member Since: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 97
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I'm using socket heads rather than the supplied button heads. I reckon I can squeeze an allen key into the gap to hold the bolt as I tighten the nut on the outside. Not pretty but practical. http://www.roadracingsupporters.com
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19th Jan 2012 9:56pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443 
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Click image to enlarge Yep, just one of those 5minute jobs I thought  The bolts I used were ones I dug out of my fixings collection as my bumperettes didn't come with fixings. Rivnuts would be a good idea but I just used what I had to hand. After a fair amount of blasphemy I bit the bullet and fed the bolts from inside the X member and put the nut on the outside. As mine's a 110 station wagon there are a pair of Torx headed domed bolt heads which fouled the leg of the bumperette on the outer fixing points, so when the 2 threaded ends showed themselves I wound a nut on and tightened it up which gave me a spacer and then put the bumperette on. With the fixings being 'solid' then there is no need to get a spanner inside the X member, impossible because of the side plate that covers the end of it. The inner 2 fixings can be fed through from behind the X member, still a fiddle though  The bolts I used were M8's and I'll get round to painting them when I repaint the rest of the X member, a job for the warmer, drier months
Still rubbing the grazed knuckles etc :shock: Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated  |
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19th Jan 2012 10:45pm |
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| roadracingtog Member Since: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 97
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I think I've got that, I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Cheers :thumbsup: Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated http://www.roadracingsupporters.com |
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19th Jan 2012 11:30pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443
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In short, I put 2 bolts facing outwards through the X member and put a nut on each and tightened up. This left enough thread on the 25mm bolts to hang the bumperette and put a fixing nut on. the fixings towards the tow bracket(inner ones) I put through with the bumperette in place and bolted up.
I needed to step out the outer 'leg' of the bumperette as there are some fixings in the way, these hold the rear tub in place, so without modifying the 'leg' it was the easy way out  |
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19th Jan 2012 11:45pm |
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| Drover Member Since: 27 May 2011 Location: Central Coast NSW Posts: 53 
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I used a piece of flat bar, cut to length, drilled two over sized holes to align with x-member holes and tacked the nuts to it.
On one end of the plate tack a piece of welding wire or fencing wire. Holding the wire, feed the plate up in side the x-member, with the now captured nuts, into position. Start both bolts and then tighten. Da Dah…. |
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20th Jan 2012 12:50am |
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| Zagato Site Supporter Member Since: 08 Jan 2011 Location: Billingshurst West Sussex Posts: 5025
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Yes confused also. I had no problems other than a couple of bolts were too short so bought longer ones! What make of bumperettes are you talking about, mine were Safari Equip ones  Not the ones in the picture! |
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20th Jan 2012 8:46am |
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| roadracingtog Member Since: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 97
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They're from Paddocks as per the pic below.
The issue is basically that I cant get a spanner/socket onto the securing nut of the bolt that secures the outermost bracket of the bumperette. The design of the rear crossmember won't allow me to get any tool onto the nut. The "wing" of the bumperette itself makes the gap too narrow for me to hold the nut. Fishing around with an allen key I think I may be able to hold the socket head of the bolt if I reverse the nut/bolt arrangement so that the securing nut is on the outside. I'll give it a try anyway. http://www.roadracingsupporters.com |
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20th Jan 2012 9:00am |
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| Zagato Site Supporter Member Since: 08 Jan 2011 Location: Billingshurst West Sussex Posts: 5025
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Send em back and get some Safari Equip ones, proper job, stronger, box shaped bracket not L, galv then powder coated bla bla
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20th Jan 2012 9:19am |
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| roadracingtog Member Since: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 97
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I refuse to be beaten  http://www.roadracingsupporters.com |
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20th Jan 2012 9:54am |
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