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Originally Posted by Arctic
Pics below showing the welded slots which hold the subframe nuts, stupid idea  try getting a chisel into the hole and giving the slots a good bang in hope they will loch onto the nut ? Arctic |
Now that is a stupid design. Even if they retained the slots you would have thought they could have used a hexagon nut for just such occassions as this. There is just room to get a short stubby spanner in if it was hexagonal. To make it round is a kind of booby trap for mechanics.
From feel i would say its probably the slots that have come off. In the photo there they dont look especially strong, and even when new I wouldnt have given them much chance of holding 89 lbf's.