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Old 13th March 2021, 17:18   #3
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Originally Posted by The Mighty Quinn View Post
There's 4 or 5 of those plastic nuts in each of the rear wheel arch liners, from memory. Don't think there are any in the front ones, as they're held on on with little plastic rivet screws, but the rears use the plastic studs which are screwed onto threaded steel tangs in the arch.


p.s. Try soaking the seized nut in PlusGas for a few days before giving it another go (or, use some heat if you got the kit and the skills).


Cheers,
Karl.
Ah that'll be it, I was pricing up for all 4 wheel arches, but it's only really the fronts that need replacing, so I can remove those nuts from the order.

Last time before we tried to do the strut top bearing I'd been spraying plusgas on it twice a day, so I don't think that's likely to work.
I do have a blowtorch, and it doesn't matter about damaging the thread as the strut will be replaced, it's just the gaiters and things I want to reuse, so once the nut is off I can take all the other bits off and clean them up to swap over.
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