As a lot of you know, the nuts on the inside of the frame rails sometimes fall off. Heres my solution of how to repair these. Find a larger nut, clean and enlarge the area to be welded, use a maganet to position the nut behind the rail thru the little hole in the bottom of the rail, weld them in, grind and smooth. As good as new. I was lucky these frame rails were solid.
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Working on the 65?

 

Good advice, thanks for the tip!

 

Good engineering. Keep that, I'm sure someone will need it sooner or later.

 

Its on the 65, I have seen a lot of these bad. A lot of people drill thru the rail and use a long bolt only to have the bolts loosen up later. I'm up to 5 hours now.

 

Good idea!

 

wait so did u leave the old nut in the frame rail?

 

I'm sure they weretwisted off as they were not there and most likely rusted to the bolts. Thedriversside was OK and they were still usable. I did recover several pieces of metal. The previous owner had ran bolts all the way thru.