Fml - Dropped roof rack nuts - help

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If you are doing racks regularly it’s worth grabbing a few threaded studs that you can thread back in after you remove each bolt. It makes it impossible to spin or lose a bracket. Without a head on the rod you can drop the foot kit for the new rack right over the studs, then replace them one at a time with the bolts.

I found some 4” threaded studs that match the roof rack bolts thread pitch for less than a dollar each at Lowes and they’ve saved me a lot of headache over the years.

Also saves a ton of time as you don’t have to gingerly remove the bolts alternating sides. I just zap one out with the small impact gun, thread the stud back in, zap the other side out, thread stud back in. Place foot over studs and do process in reverse. I like to thread them back in by hand and tighten the bolts by hand but I’ve never stripped anything out removing them with the impact driver.

This is great tech!

I would support a dedicated how-to thread or video making it into the how-tos/FAQs

 

[Boston Mangler]

Good info here! THanks for posting