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(Message started by: Highlander on Jul 15^th, 2008, 10:43pm)

Title: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Highlander on Jul 15^th, 2008, 10:43pm

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!!:)

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by gozz on Jul 15^th, 2008, 10:54pm

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.

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Scorpio_Mike on Jul 16^th, 2008, 11:02am

I had to grind all 4 of the Torx bolts off when I fitted the towbar to my estate >:(

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Highlander on Jul 16^th, 2008, 6:45pm

Yep thats the norm! :)

Thats the first time i've ever managed to get ONE to move never mind all four!!

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Geoff_W on Jul 17^th, 2008, 12:01am

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 ;D

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Baz on Jul 18^th, 2008, 2:38am

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!

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Highlander on Jul 18^th, 2008, 9:51am

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.

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Geoff_W on Jul 18^th, 2008, 2:02pm

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 ;D

Title: Re: First Time Ever!!!!
Post by Baz on Jul 20^th, 2008, 10:07pm

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