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Been fiddling today between the snow showers.

I took the snorkel off the top of the blower so that I could seal it properly and get rid of one of my leaks.

I couldn't believe that the 3 bolts on the front edge didn't have captive nuts, considering that it is nigh on impossible to get a spanner on them. It must have been installed before the master cylinder. What were they thinking.



I ended up jamming a screwdriver in to my nuts to hold them in place.

So, another mod I did was to use my rivnut tool and fit some rivnuts so I wouldn't have the same problem next time.



Once it was off I dried the seal off and applied some roofing sealant to the bulkhead. Non of your namby pamby silicone sealant, but some house roofing/guttering type stuff.



Put the snorkel back on and bolted it back into place.





Smoothed the sealant off around the edge and hopefully I can forget about the leak.

Put my carpet, passenger seat and door cards back in. So I nearly have a complete car now.

I'm sure I'll find this out soon enough. Good work!

The only part I have come across so far is the crap design of getting the sound proofing carpet/mould from out of the engine cover/rear roof area.

Could you show what a 'rivnut' is/does. I'm intrigued.

Oh and thanks for the quote:whistle:

Nice work CJJ - as you say, why were captive nuts not used:cuckoo:

David Aiketgate;10945 wrote: wrote:

Could you show what a 'rivnut' is/does. I'm intrigued.

Oh and thanks for the quote:whistle:

Here you go mate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivet_nut

http://www.cardinalcomponents.com/fasteners.htm

You use it like a big rivet. You drill a hole, screw the rivnut onto the end of the tool, place it in the hole and squeeze the handles. This causes the rivnut to expand in the hole and grip to the metalwork. You now have a captive nut. Very useful tool.

well you learn something new everyday....id never heard of these rivnuts before...ingenious little thing

Where you get your rivnut tool Clive? That link only has a more manual version with allen keys!

I think I got mine off ebay

Ingenious solution Clive.... I used 6mm nuts ttached to a long flat bladed screwdriver with insulation tape then a bit of fiddling got them threaded on.

Respect though!

Here ya go

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1311&_nkw=rivnut+tool&_sacat=See-All-Categories

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=rivnuts&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=rivnut+tool&_osacat=0

Swerving;10954 wrote: wrote:

Ingenious solution Clive.... I used 6mm nuts ttached to a long flat bladed screwdriver with insulation tape then a bit of fiddling got them threaded on.

Respect though!

I probably would have done similar if I didn't already have the rivnuts.

CJJ;10955 wrote: wrote:

Here ya go

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1311&_nkw=rivnut+tool&_sacat=See-All-Categories

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=rivnuts&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=rivnut+tool&_osacat=0

Thanks - oh dear now more to spend money on!