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Steering guard woes

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Evilgoat:
Make sure you put that bolt back in the sterring linkage.

We spent days tryong to get the drop arm off a paj, broke pullers the works.

Then got up one morning to carry on and it had just fallen off overnight.

Disco Matt:
I must have been lucky with mine - after a good dose of Plusgas and the longest socket handle I could lay hands on it came off undamaged!

Plusgas does seem to be the way to go - the bumper bolts wouldn't move at all with the usual WD40 and spanner/hammer approach. Got both of them off in under 5mins after a dousing with this stuff.

andrew2986:
wouldnt have thought a garage was needed, get a long breaker bar and work it up and down with a mate hitting it from the inside, get a long smaler bolt to chase it out with once it starts moving, use some heat if youve got some, it will come out..just not a 10min job.
good luck

Frankie-Boy:
Gareth,

If the guard is two inches too thin to fit on the inside of your chassis rails, It isn't the right one for your motor, it should be a reasonably tight fit either outside or inside the rails, you don't want to have to put spacers in or these will effect the stability of the bolts if you bounce the guard off a rock or something.

When I fitted my guard that big bolt was very tight but did come out eventually, its just a case of perseverance, but don't drive it without the bolt and nut fitted - just in case.

cardiff_gareth:
Doh, driven it to work this morning and gotta get it home later on, will make sure its a slow drive and aviod the normal route of the M4  8-[

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