Simon,
Not to rain on your parade, but did you get the nut with the shoulder on the
bottom side? These nuts have a shoulder which is 1/32 to 1/16 thick on the
underside. Not exactly sure why but I have seen several.
Keith Pennell
> Some of you may remember the thread I started about 2 weeks ago re the
door
> check straps in the 3000s.
>
> I found that mine were in the wrong doors and upside down!
>
> I discovered that the left hand unit was easy to fix..weld in the right
> bolt, adjust and you're done.
>
> The right hand side (driver's in UK, Australia etc) is not so easy. The
nut
> & bolt are left hand thread.
>
>
>
> I was able to confirm - by asking around - that it is usually the nuts
whose
> thread strips, not the bolts. Certainly that was the case with mine.
>
> By finding out that one could buy the whole unit for +/- GBP35.00, I was
> able to determine that that is a hell of a lot of money to stump up for
one
> nut and that the nuts must be "out there somewhere" as the manufacturers
> were using them.
>
>
>
> None of the usual suspects (UK suppliers) could supply the nuts and said
> that they hadn't been able to find them. I believed that they had looked,
> but not very hard).
>
>
>
> I looked for quite a while and did find one company in the UK that has
about
> 200. (Nuts only. No bolts/studs.) They did not really want to
know..selling
> one nut at a time is not really there bag. (Even though I doubt if they've
> sold one of these in 20 years). However I did get one at an inflated
price.
>
>
>
> I am contemplating buying all their stock if they want to get rid of it,
> which they may. But, I'll only do so if there is a worthwhile demand. I
> can't give out their details as a deluge of enquiries for one nut each
would
> lead nowhere.
>
>
>
> So, is there any interest? Are your doors flapping around? Can you get
> together on this? I'm not wrapping up x little packets and mailing them
one
> at a time.
>
>
>
> One caveat.I had to file my nut down to fit. It took about 10 minutes. I
> don't know whether the "spanner" on my unit was slightly squashed or
whether
> the nut was fractionall on the large size.
>
> Simon.
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