Battery Tray Removal

[Kennyb 0]

Ok just wondering if someone has removed their battery tray/gearbox mount before??

 

I've just started to clean all the bay and jump on all the rust and removed the battery tray to repaint and do this.......when I removed the tray one of the bolts was stiff and the retaining bolt in the chassis leg broke away and just started spinning

 

So i had to cut the bolt head off to get the tray out......

 

Now I have a hole where there should be a nut to screw the bolt into but no way to get inside the chassis leg to put another on?????

 

The other 3 mount points look like they may be a special part that you can insert into the hole from outside the leg but im totally unsure???

 

Anyone know/or have had the same problem and got a solution or know of the part number maybe for that special nut in that area????

 

 

Help!

[gti-si 0]

Yes they are replaceable.

 

It's called a captive nut, I'll get you a part number

[M_R_205 5 1 Cars]

i had one fall out once, i had to take the front bumper off and use 2 long metal rods (like chopsticks) to click it back into place, you can get accuss from the hole where the front bumper bar goes, its a royal pain in the arse mind!! and taking the bumper off, with the origional mounts is a pain in the arse its self!

 

Good luck

Paul.

[gti-si 0]

Can't find the part no on service box, it seems to be hiding. Sounds like it is a royal pain. You could drill a hole through some M8 rod, screw the bottm into the captive nut, then feed some fishing wire through the hole (for your missing captive nut), down the leg and out of the hole for the bumper bar, then attatch your captive nut and bolt, then pull it back through to the hole, then just put a nut on the stud and wind it down to pull up the captive nut, then remove the the nut and stud and replace with the bolt.

 

Would only need to remove a headlight then

Edited August 14, 2009 by gti-si