TR2/3/3A Stanchion Guide

[AVColarossi]

Windshield stanchion guide removal is proving difficult. Any suggestions?

 

[Marvin Gruber]

Sometimes the screw is going to break. You may end up drilling and tapping

 

[mastaphixa]

I found a hand held impact useful. The kind you hit with a hammer.

 

[sp53]

When there is no way to get vise grips on the backside of the caged nut or with a windshield I think they are welded nut with no access, you are better off to drill the head off the screw and re-tap the hole. Maybe some light tapping with an impact hammer, but you do not want to spin the nut in the cage or knock the nut off.

steve

 

[CJD]

Standard practice in removing Triumph bolts...

1)Wrench/screw driver
2)Impact wrench/hammer driver
3)Repeat with heat
4) Vice grips

By this point the head has broken off.

5)Drill with left hand drill bit and extractor
6)Drill completely out
7)Re-tap/replace nut

I am being completely honest when I tell you I have drilled out as many bolts on my car as I have unscrewed. Of course, now that it is restored that will not happen again.

 

[Popeye]

Don’t forget PB-Blaster, Kroil, or your favorite penetrant.

Even when fasteners come off “easily”, it helps to lubricate the threads.

 

[JHaydon]

+1 to penetrating oil! And if you can see (by contortions and/or a mirror and flashlight) rust, try knocking some of it off with a wire brush. Trying to drag that stuff through the nut will grind away at the female threads.

Also +1 to impact screwdrivers. The day before I got mine I didn't know they existed. The day after I got it I didn't know how I existed without one.

 

[sp53]

One added help for stuck caged nuts on a restoration is to take a hand carry able sandblaster pot and just blast all the rust and stuff---- out and off the nut. Then put power blaster on the freshly blasted nut and that soak.

steve

 

[charleyf]

The nuts behind the stantion supports are welded in place on my 59 TR3A. They are not caged nuts.
I had a couple that I had to drill out. I then had to refill the holes with a MIG welder and tap in the new threads.
Charley

 

[AVColarossi]

Thank you all. Successfully removed the stantion using PB Blaster and impact wrench. Sorry for the delay in posting