by stanyon Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:46 pmMy Truck is a 65, and has never had a sway bar mounted. So after fifty years of exposure the factory installed mounting bolts were a little rusty and unwilling to accept a bolt.
I took a matching bolt and filed four grooves into the bolt at a slight angle to the axis of the bolt and then used it as a tap.
The threads are now cleaned up and ready to mount my sway bar. The reason for the groves is to allow an escape path for all the crude and not load up the threads.
I took a matching bolt and filed four grooves into the bolt at a slight angle to the axis of the bolt and then used it as a tap.
The threads are now cleaned up and ready to mount my sway bar. The reason for the groves is to allow an escape path for all the crude and not load up the threads.
