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Highlander
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First Time Ever!!!!
« on: Jul 15th, 2008, 10:43pm » |
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Fitting a towbar to a saloon tonight and managed to unscrew ALL FOUR T40 torx bolts on the bumper brackets!!! not an angle grinder in sight!!
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on Oct 17th, 2011, 12:35pm, Simmo wrote:I give up !  Too much for an old boy!  |
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gozz
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #1 on: Jul 15th, 2008, 10:54pm » |
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Will it be the MACALLAN Jock ?
It does that for me as well ! combination of patience,strength,dont give a monkeys,and sheer pleasure ! beats illegal stuff every time !
GOZZ.
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Scorpio_Mike
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #2 on: Jul 16th, 2008, 11:02am » |
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I had to grind all 4 of the Torx bolts off when I fitted the towbar to my estate 
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Sierra XR4i's are great...especially when fitted with 4WD
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Highlander
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #3 on: Jul 16th, 2008, 6:45pm » |
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Yep thats the norm!
Thats the first time i've ever managed to get ONE to move never mind all four!!
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on Oct 17th, 2011, 12:35pm, Simmo wrote:| I give up ! Too much for an old boy! |
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Geoff_W
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #4 on: Jul 17th, 2008, 12:01am » |
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Mm well just had my friendly local garage free the 12valves prior to a tow bar fitting session on Friday.
Quite a bit of heat needed and final solution was to weld 19mm nuts on to torx bolts, that did the trick 
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The winding road goes on and on... or at least it does in Northumberland
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Baz
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #5 on: Jul 18th, 2008, 2:38am » |
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When I ttok the rear bumper off my red S reg Scorpio a good few years back to fit parking sensors, it never had torx bolts, it had normal headed bolts. Not sure of they were originals but I don't see why they would have been taken off previously!
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Highlander
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #6 on: Jul 18th, 2008, 9:51am » |
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Did it have a tow bar Baz?
Depending on the type of tow bar used the original torx bolts are sometimes replaced if there is a crossmember passing below them as they arent long enough to pass through it and still get a hold.
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on Oct 17th, 2011, 12:35pm, Simmo wrote:| I give up ! Too much for an old boy! |
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Geoff_W
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #7 on: Jul 18th, 2008, 2:02pm » |
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My NEW Witter bar has bolts to replace the Torx. I know feel somewhat more secure around the back end thanks to the various pieces of angle iron and hefty bolts beefing up the back end
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Baz
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Re: First Time Ever!!!!
« Reply #8 on: Jul 20th, 2008, 10:07pm » |
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I have the Brink removeable one on S29 and that has about 20 bolts holding it all in place (Has to be type approved for the S reg as well!)
As for the red one, I don't think it ever had a towbar on it so no idea how it ended up with "normal" headed bolts instead of torx ones
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