Strange thing happened today. Well not strange but different. I was in my garage as usual by myself sweeping the floor and cleaning up. Something I do every Sunday after church. I was just about done and I heard a piece of metal hit the floor and roll around. I yelled hey ha ha. No one was there. I walked over to the passengers side and laying on the floor was a bottom cab mount washer.
It was laying on the floor and the bottom rubber was next to it. I stooped down and looked up and saw it was the front cab mount from the mule right under the brake pedal. Interesting. I thought that's nice. I bet that bolt will be fun to get out. I sprayed PB Blast and put the cordless 3/8" Snap On impact on the bolt. I hammered it back and forth and sprayed it again. I left it sit and went outside and mowed some grass. I came back every once in a while and hammered on it with the impact back and forth. About 2 hours later I decided it was time to get ugly with this thing. So I put the 1/2" Snap on cordless impact to it. That was a breeze. The bolt came right out. I gave it thought about the cage
nut breaking loose in the body. It did not.
The bolt was not really as bad as I had imagined it to be. I dug around in my bins and found a new cab washer from back in the day when these type of trucks were new.
I put a 1/2" grade 8 bolt and some pure nickel never seize on the bolt and drove it in tight. I thought about changing them all but just decided to check them all. They were all good. Strange. I sprayed some undercoating on the new front inner fender aprons. That was about all I completed on the Mule today. More grass to mow and ribs to cook.
The right apron was from a Youpullit score yesterday. I cut out for the quad shock and the other left one is a Genuine GM restoration part. Made in Taiwan. Sorry I had to say it. Genuine GM restoration part made in Taiwan. Thank you for looking. I must move on to Mr Rusty the rest of the day.