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does anyone have any solutions to broken spot welded nuts down the chasis rails were the bullbars connect on brumby the wrap around type bars

cheers
camo

weld a wire to the nut...push it back in and put the bolt in and tighten up...if there is room to do it with bar off and reach it with a welding rod you can reweld it..other option is to cut open the boton of the rail...weld the nut back in place and re-weld the rail....no real easy fix

I thought the nuts where on the rails for the bar?

I believe you can hold you tongue right with a suitable spanner, i would off you a hand but i am going down the sunny coast on friday morning and madly backing.. etc. If you get stuck and can wait until Tuesday i might be able to give you a hand then.

weld 2 nuts to a plate,slide the plate inside the chasis rail,tec screw the plate to the rail from the outside then bolt the bar back on.

just another solution

I had same problem - two welded nuts broke off inside the chassis rail & were about 25cm from open end. I used a lot of magic words & made reference to the fact that the parents of my Brumby never were married.........then I put a loop of ribbon (like used for a present) through the bolt hole, stuck a bent coat hanger down the chassis rail & pulled out the ribbon (holding the other end of the ribbon of course) . I tied the ribbon around the thread of a high tensile bolt (with washer already in place ) and pulled the bolt down the chassis rail with the ribbon .... & out popped the thread through the bolt hole. So it was easy to put a washer & nut on the thread & tighten it up (I needed multigrip to hold one of them)
One day , when the car is wrecked, I hope the wrecker looks at it & wonders how anyone put a bolt so far down inside the chassis rail.

thanks for all the solutions i've fixed using plate with some spot welded nuts.