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Mwd

Member Since: 12 Jan 2016
Location: Scottish Highlands
Posts: 45

Mudflap rivnut help needed!

So, I naively took off one of my front mudflaps to repaid the bracket and now I can't get the bu99er back on. One of the rivnuts is loose and spins when I try to tighten the bolt. I can't get a decent grip on it with pliers and I'm hoping someone can advise a technique to get the bolt tightened up.

2nd Nov 2016 8:21pm

jrule

Member Since: 10 Aug 2015
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 302

Screw a longer bolt into it with a nut already on the bolt, hold the bolt head with a spanner and gently tighten the nut and it will compress the riv nut, don't over tighten but nip it up so it grips.

Hope that solves it…

2nd Nov 2016 9:07pm

LandRoverAnorak

Member Since: 17 Jul 2011
Location: Surrey
Posts: 11324

You can probably reset the rivnut so that it grips the hole again. Use either a proper rivnut tool or a bolt, a couple of nuts and three hands. Darren

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2nd Nov 2016 9:09pm

V8GPC

Member Since: 18 Jul 2016
Location: Manchester
Posts: 289

i used normal nuts and bolts; you can just about get your hand in there; i used stainless with nyloc nuts and plenty of copper greese.

To get rid of the spinning riv nut, they easily knock inside if you use a punch from the outside to be retrieved by hand, and don't damage the hole so could be replaced with new ones later on.

3rd Nov 2016 7:02am

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