Keystone State Thread

Thanks Jerry. I hope that won’t be the case here.

 

I'm ready to put my Mobtown IFS skid on my truck and I went to remove the stock "grass guard" which is in two sections. When removing the piece that is toward the rear of the truck I saw that the 12mm self-tapping machine screw on the rear passenger side must have gotten scraped up a bit when I was up at AOAA in the fall and head of the bolt is slightly deformed. Not sure why Toyota thinks it's a good idea to have exposed bolt heads on a skid

Luckily I was able to get a ratchet on it and the head turns but the bolt isn't backing out - it's just spinning. I'm assuming the treads in the hole must be the issue.

I'm not much of a mechanic so any advice/tactics to get that out would be greatly appreciated.

 

@loosnut didn't we have a problem with this same bolt? @Black Foot has a 3rd gen though

 

Sorta remember something to that effect
Try taking all the other bolts out and try spinning bolt with impact gun.

 

Ah now I remember
Wedged a screwdriver between nut and crossmember to stop nut from spinning.

 

Can't have school if there are no buses

 

MAKES FOR A LOUSEY SUMMER FOR THE KIDS

 

Just made this
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/steele-tacos-not-yet-built-build.535607/

 

Thanks @loosnut , I'll give that a try.

 

Yup. Pretty common I guess. Mine were stripped though.

 

Got my JBA Off-road UCAS waiting on OME lift from Headstrong which should be here wednesday and a bumper from Mobtown offroad in the next week or so.

 

@loosnut ... forgot to ask how you how got it back together?

 

couldn't begin to tell you.i don't remember.

 

I don't think it was needed for the new skid. It had to get removed though for the new skid to sit in place.

 

Once we got the old skid off mine, I laid the old on top of the new and saw that the bolt holes were different. I don't 100% remember which bolt was the one spinning on mine, but I do remember that the new skid had different mounting points that were to be used.

 

That the same one with the broken tail?

 

Got my SnugTop GB Sport, LED bed lights, grill running lights installed yesterday.