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Originally Posted by 57taskforce
Did you have a lot of trouble getting the nut off? Mine came off pretty easy with a vice and an 18 or 24” crescent. I reused the factory nut with my captain fab brackets with no issues.
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It wasn't the nut so much as the way it was buried in the mounting plate. I used a system off an 85 one ton. The bracket had the nut countersunk, you can't get the jaws of the crescent or channel locks in that countersunk area to get a bite. I used an air chisel and busted it off. Figured I would just buy another nut, none to be found. So I used a spanner.
Here's a top view of the mounting bracket with the spanner nut on, and you know how fat those are. Plus you can use the retaining lock. You can see how deep in the bracket it's buried.
An annoying nut configuration. Fun project though. Here's a couple pics I have on file.
J
Here's the spanner buried in the mounting bracket off an 85 CUCV
Gland nut wrench, nut torqued to 120 lbft
