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Taking the family for a few days of easy/moderate trails between attending Off-Roadeo on March 14th. I suppose this trip starts out with this story:
As of today March 10th I have 4200 miles on my oil so I decide to do an oil change before I leave as the trip will be at least 1300 more miles total. As I am removing the passenger side skid bolt that bolts to the frame (of my 24 Big Bend 2.3 manual SASed 4 door) with my impact the head breaks off:
($2.18 replacement the local Ford dealer had in stock in background)
I thought about just going with three working bolts, but if the skid is rattling on the highway all the way up there I will never hear the end of it from my wife. So tomorrow morning the local diesel performance/fab shop will take a wack at removing the rest of it, and if that fails drilling a new one just off the existing placement. I am hoping the former as I have a transmission skid sitting the garage I have yet to install that uses the OEM locations if memory serves.
Bad bolt, trail stress, or did I overtighten it last oil change? Who knows...oh well, excited about the trip!
Edit: Local diesel shop had the bolt out quick and charged me less than $40 so we are good to go for a tomorrow morning departure
As of today March 10th I have 4200 miles on my oil so I decide to do an oil change before I leave as the trip will be at least 1300 more miles total. As I am removing the passenger side skid bolt that bolts to the frame (of my 24 Big Bend 2.3 manual SASed 4 door) with my impact the head breaks off:
($2.18 replacement the local Ford dealer had in stock in background)
I thought about just going with three working bolts, but if the skid is rattling on the highway all the way up there I will never hear the end of it from my wife. So tomorrow morning the local diesel performance/fab shop will take a wack at removing the rest of it, and if that fails drilling a new one just off the existing placement. I am hoping the former as I have a transmission skid sitting the garage I have yet to install that uses the OEM locations if memory serves.
Bad bolt, trail stress, or did I overtighten it last oil change? Who knows...oh well, excited about the trip!
Edit: Local diesel shop had the bolt out quick and charged me less than $40 so we are good to go for a tomorrow morning departure
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